According to reports in Italy(source: tuttomercatoweb), Napoli is close to signing Subotic. This would be yet another nice piece of business by Marino. This man is the best transfer guru in Europe IMO.
yeah, the thing that it seems that the deal is already sealed without anyone noticing is nice.
i do not want to talk marinos skills as transfer guru down, but he has a advantage over secco and co.
a club like napoli is not so well monitored and written about that you would instanlty read it in papers when marino is in germany for example.
a club like napoli have nothing to lose, so they can give young shots a chance. nobody expects them to mount a serious challenge on the scudetto or anything. so everything they achieve is seen as success.
napoli have a inferior squad, so it is easier to enhance and strengthen it.
if marino can bring someone that is an instant hit and would have a starting role in a squad like juve, than you can really compare him with the best
so don't get me wrong ... i am not saying secco is better. i am just saying marinos job is the easier one ... surely i would like to see him do our transfer business, but i think it would be a huge difference for marino to be a juve transfer guru.
it is not like he can go to clubs now and say "see, we are a small club and want to have this or that player".
the clubs that own the players will certainly demand lower fees, because they will think that a club like napoli has not the money to overpay players...
when secco asks for the same player, the club could say "hey, come on. you are juventus ... don't tell me you can not afford to pay 10m € for him!"
another factor could be, that noone in europe will ever see napoli is direct or indirect competitor for anything.
just my thoughts about what was if he was in a big club.