this is my first post here, main reason i joined is becasue i cant understand how people can give this mercato a high rating.
well, i do feel like him, rating this mercato 2\10 is being generous.
at first marrota stated that the goal of this mercato is to keep the stars, before that he also said that juve does not need any new players to reinforce the team, and that the team is perfect.
for starters, marrota failed achieving his own goal. seeing vidal saying that he doesnt believe in juve to get to CL glory, there are no excuses here, marrota had a 125 million budget to reinforce the team, with this budget and the existing team(even without tevez), juve could do what it takes to make vidal believe that juve can get 1 step higher. losing the key player falls on marrota alone.
now for the mercato itself -
it started with mandzukic, dybala and zaza. marrota is being reckless, buying 2 target man, when he already has Llorente and morata. and who are those strikers?
mandzukic - a striker after a bad season in a club thats on the rise, 28 years old, how come he was sold for 21mil? its just way too high, when i see roma getting dzeko with a loan to 11mil purchase, it makes me think that this purchase is one of the worst ive seen in the last 10 years.
zaza? even marrota transfer listed him 1 minute after he bought him. reckless.
one word - fail. 40 mil goes to waste, an amount that juve does not spend every day, could and shouldve spent more wisely.
*couldnt understand how people rated the starting of the mercato high.
dybala - there are some issues with this transfer, dybala had 1 year for contract(correct me if i am wrong), he is very young, you cant really tell what those youngsters would really give you, considering this - 40 mil is a lot. though overall dybala purchase is fine, he should be quality. seeing now that dybala was actually tevez replacement(unlike what marrota promised), getting into tevez shoes would be a mission impossible.
khedira - the guy did not play for 1 year, but it is after all a free transfer, seems like a purchase that you cant really count on though, and it shows up now - we see padoin in the centre midfield.
alex sandro - most would say that this is a great purchase, but 26 mil for a guy on his last year of contract, the ones that praise this one have to understand that siqueira is not the only LB in the world, there are lots of LB's, once again look at roma purchase - digne loan with opt to buy for 15mil.
mario lemina - this purchase is nice, a loan with opt to buy, no harm can be done here, and would probably be better than padoin in midfield so its great.
cuadrado - it is a loan, but afterall juve picked here another player that you cant really count on.
hernanes - "the cream of the crop", inter's trash. this finale showed how bad marrota is for juventus, and that he isnt the person to get juve to the next level, he fails hard with his promise of a number 10 and loses draxler to wolfsburg. another purchase you cant count on.
about the departures -
coman sale was stupid, he is much better than hernanes\cuadrado, juve also lost here the possibility to play 4-3-3, which makes the squad very limited once again.
also how come coman does not fit into the squad but cuadrado does? both are wingers, i dont see the point here, replacing hot prospect with old trash.
vidal sale was sad, in a time when anthony martial goes for 60mil and KDB goes for 80mil, vidal should be 200mil. how come wolfsburg can hold man city to the last minute until man city have no option but to splash as much as they can on KDB, but marrota cant do the same on vidal?
marrota also failed to sell isla after he had a very good copa america.
ogbonna sale was decent.
pirlo - lots of respect for him, but he did more harm than good last season.
tevez - 6.5mil + youngsters is way too low for one of the best players in europe(the best last season imo), but i guess its ok, it was tevez only wish and i dont see boca paying more than they did.
to sum it up, there was no real planning here, marrota spent 125mil(not considering pereyra purchase), without even thinking with allegri what they actually need.
marrota released stars and brought in players that juve cant really count on, like cuadrado, hernanes, khedira, with players that juve didnt really need - mandzukic and zaza. juve could do much better with coman and Llorente(sub to morata) instead of those. that way they might have actually landed their promise of a real number 10.
considering the fact that there was no planning, no real improvement or better to say having weakened squad after spending 125mil and seeing marrota fail with his own goals(stars leaving and lack of number 10). i just have to rate this 1\10.
there has to be separation between juve squad to juve mercato. the fact that juve probably has the best squad in italy, and a good squad overall, doesnt mean that this mercato was great, there are lots of aspects to a deal - if a player had a bad season, you cant spend big on him, if a player has 1 year left on contract, you cant spend big on him, if a player is injury prone you cant count on him.
if stars leave you must bring proper replacements.
there are too many question marks around juve squad right now, and it is just unacceptable after spending big like that.
you cant gamble like that with 125mil budget!
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That's why i'm voting 7.
