we took a financial risk for Morata. 20M was more than half our budget last summer and we spent it all on one player. why? we obviously think he will turn out great. we arent stupid to spend most of our money on one player if we didnt think he will become worth it in the future. if Morata turns out great, a 30-40M striker, will you call it pure luck? will you say he was unproven and we didnt knew that he will become this good back then? correct me if im wrong but reading your posts i had the impression that you think our best signings were pure luck? thats obviously not true (sorry again if i misunderstood your point). i could agree if it happened once or twice, but after 3, 4, 5 or 6 such signings you have to admit that we know what we are doing. you say Tevez was troublesome but have you thought about the background story? i cant remember him causing any trouble at United, only at City where he wasnt happy for many reasons. if you as a club act professional towards him and respect him then he will do the same. ofcourse, a smart man like Marotta realized that and got a WC striker for 10M. you call it luck, i call it a typical Marotta "i cant believe no one wants this guy, is everyone retarded?" transfer. Vidal was 23 and already one of the best CMs in the BL wanted by Bayern. do you think that one was luck too? you could argue about Pirlo but then you read what Marotta said back then and you see we again knew what we were doing as we were buying Pirlo for a starting role and as one of our biggest signings that summer. some compare other freebies like Anelka, Lucio etc. with Pirlo but fail to realize that those were emergency depth signings when we didnt have any money left and the only thing they had in common with the Pirlo signing was 0€ spent on them. the Pogba transfer was a lot of Raiola as he probably told us to look at him but you say no one knew he was gonna turn out this way. well, i "knew". everyone who saw Pogba only once (be it youth game, friendly, league game etc.) "knew" he was gonna become atleast one of the best in his position. i "knew" it, i doubt guys like Marotta and Paratici who watched him constantly didnt know that. even Buffon once said that after he saw Pogba in training for the 1st time asked himself "are they blind in Manchester?" im telling you all of this simply because i can not accept calling the work Marotta has done so far as pure luck
i also noticed in one of your previous posts that you say Pereyra was unneeded and that Romulo was enough for that role. that is again false. all our summer signings were bought at a time we used the 3-5-2 still. Romulo was bought as a Licht backup, more precisely to replace Isla. we had Isla already last season and we still needed that 5th CM. with Romulo replacing Isla we would still need a 5th CM which is Pereyra.
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