No I disagree. You almost make it sounds as if we are the victims here by being a successful club domestically. On a business level, we actually maintain a great relationship with most Serie A clubs. I think that there are 2 clubs particularly difficult to do business with; Fiorentina and Lazio. And even Commisso kept his promise, he didn’t wanted to sell Chiesa when he just arrived, even though we had a agreement. Year later he sold him to us and as things stand today; he only collected 10m in those 2 years. Wasn’t a unfair deal at all, even tho he cries to much in the media. Sassuolo wasnt easy but they weren’t greedy aswel to basically postpone payments for 2 years.
The difference between Bayern and us is really that they have their priorities straight.
To get back to Zaniolo (it’s really easy to just pick a cool player and blame our board, but we missed plenty of opportunities), yeah I do believe that we had a chance to sign a youth player they weren’t planning to use at all, they are rivals but back then also a club in need of money. He wasn’t their capitano or something.
Lol. Whatever floats your boat, dude. We have like zero ability to negotiate with Inter, Napoli, Lazio, Viola and Roma most of the time. And if we do, they want to bleed us dry. Their fans literally stage protests any time they think of selling a half-decent player to us. Those are 5 of the biggest clubs in the league. Whereas in Bundesfodda, Bayern gets cheap deals on players from rivals like Dortmund, Schalke, Gladbach, Leverkusen, and now RB Leipzig all the time.
If you think paying out our nose for most Serie a deals vs them paying pennies on the dollar for top Bundesliga talent from so-called rival clubs is a matter of priorities, I don’t know what to tell you. You don’t get Serie A, or Bundesliga apparently.
I already conceded we haven’t been smart the past few years under Tici, but that doesn’t change the very different and much more hostile league environment for us compared to Bayern.