You and I are too different to even get started arguing. I think you belong to the minority of fans who are disappointed.
the article mainly focused on juve failure this season so far - 2 defeats, saying that it would take time for the new players to adjust.
i have no problems with that one, there is no doubt about that, but what does it have to do with the mercato?
its wrong to relate juventus squad success\failure to juventus mercato, and its just funny that people give it as an excuse. those 2 are separated, even though they affect each other. i didnt say juve have a bad squad, well i did say that considering the players juve brought it does seem like the squad is weaker. unless cuadrado will develop into nedved, khedira to vidal, and mandzukic to trezeguet..
i just said that this mercato was not good for too many reasons, and the fact that juve squad is weaker after 125mil splash, is just one of them. but no, juve squad is not weak in terms of mid table.
i believe this is the difference between the 2 groups, one is viewing the mercato, and the other is viewing the team\squad.
best example - man united purchased martial for 60mil, one would view it as a great signing of hot prospect, and the other would view it as a bad signing considering the price.
they also stated what juventus "accomplished" this summer, well, cuadrado was a "big" name when fiorentina asked for 40mil on him last year, but between 12\13 and 14\15, there was one season, one that made him listed him for 1.5mil loan, go figure. khedira had a good world cup in 2010 but that was 5 years ago..
i mean if this is the way things should be, why do we waste time? lets get trezeguet, nedved and camoranesi back.
bragging about hernanes? dont even get me started on this one. a player that INTER was happy to get rid of and luckily found reckless marrota at their service.
blabbing about a quote from zamparini? what the? who the hell listens to him? the only guy that probably listens to him is marrota
. this is by far the worst excuse i've heard about juve mercato.
bragging about the fact that juve spent big.. well.. that is the problem, juve spent big on what? half of it went straight to the trash and the other half was overspent. there is nothing to brag about it, it will just cause troubles for juve in the future.
most of this is just over-optimistic\not connected.
A 1-2/10 would be a mercato where we lost all our stars and replaced them with Primavera players. If they rate this mercato 1 or 2/10 what would they have rated it if we had also lost Pogba, Morata, and Rugani in it? Or not bought Dybala, but instead bought Cassano, or if we had only spent about 50 mil so as to do a balance the books style mercato? A 1/10 mercato is one that leaves us in the relegation zone.
well.. let me try and reverse it.
what would have happend if juve wouldnt sign cuadrado, khedira, zaza, mandzukic, hernanes, but would get draxler and other hot prospects like dybala? or maybe save the cash for a world class player like reus? or if we didnt lose vidal but would say if we lost vidal? or if we didnt lose tevez but would say if we lost tevez?
everything can be worse and everything can be better, when you compare sabatini to marrota or simeone to marrota, you will just see how one plans and spends wisely while the other is just reckless.
and cuadrado is nedved, khedira is the new vidal with pirlo vision and passes, mandzukic is shevchenko. what about zaza? i think he would make ibra jelly.
now seriously, hernanes shouldnt even be on the starting 11, hence he shouldnt even get the time for 10G15A. but he probably will(get playing time over better players) and we the fans will hope for allegri to let pereyra play.
that sounds more realistic to me.
a question for the optimstic, do you guys really believe that juve squad - potentially, can be better than last year's squad?
well basically, best scenario i see - 2 changes in the first team, dybala instead of tevez and sandro instead of asamoah which would position asamoah back in the midfield "instead" of vidal.