Just accept the fact we cant compete financially with the European Power-house teams. We have to be smart with our money. Bayern are the perfect example i know we dont own Serie A and get any player we want for bargain prices like Bayern do in Germany. They spend sesnsibly and dont over pay. We were trying to follow the path of the Premiership but Bayern's model is much much better imo to follow.
We never did, other clubs have cash injections and political influence to back them, either be the Emperor in Milan, A russian magnate in London or the Madrid mayor with city/state funding.
We are alone and the FIGC who is controlling us is our official enemy, who would do anything to harm. So we must always be extra carefull of our financial balance.
Thats why its of extreme importance to have very very competent managers.
Managers able to make the difference in the market, spending low to buy great talents or established players, make good profits from our sales and loans and get the better of every contract we own.
With the triade, this was our power, the main reason we could compete with the best, we never had the money to confront them directly, but we could reach at the starters we needed and use the talents and otheap occassions for fillers.
Unfortunately our current manager is completely incompetent.
He loses money on the co own deals, big money, the contract we own instead of creating revenue, sink our financials, as we we have a tendency to buy finished players, just to appeal the fans, or offer as a consolation prize for failling to get our primary targets.
And we are tied to those contracts, losing big money and restricting the ammount we could give to new star acquisitions.
We are glad to overpay and offer salaries noone else would, so every mediocre players who join us, would rather stay on the bench, rather than prefer the release option.
And since we cant sell anywhere near close to 50%of the ammount we are spending on the very same mistakes, we are preferring to cut our loses, by only asking 40% of their prices and sometimes we even fail that to and we end up loaning them forever until they become free agents, many times still paying a part of their wages along with the the team he is loaned.
Even small Italian clubs know that they can take advantage of us and impose very disgraceful demands, because they know that our incompetent manager will have to accept soon or later, as he is too incompetent to find better alternatives.
Post-Moggi, we have been repeatedly abused by certain clubs, esp Fiorentina, Parma and Udinese, clubs that used to feed us with talents, they use to grow players for us and when they became mature enough, not to make the mistakes that can cost points, we were the next step to their carriers.
Now they hold us by the balls, asking for 2-3 times the cash they can get from other clubs and force us to pay 2-3 times the cash they gave to loan our players, just to get them back (Giovinco's half gifted for 4mil, bought back for 12mil)
We are bleeding money in almost every deal we make, even free agents.
You are discussing that because of the money we have comiited on Isla, Asamoah and the money we lost to buy back Giovinco, we could not buy the finisher we need, not only last year, but this year as well.
If this is the case, then Marotta should already be fired!! If two seasons have been wasted from thesame mistake and he is so obviously is holding us back and compromising our future, then he ought to be out by now.
But it wont be the case, i am certain that our transfer budget will be equivalent to what it has been last years, lets just hope that we wont spread it around to more meaningless squad players that are offering nothing and compromising our future, both tactically and financially.