I will tell you that I don't like this philosophy to keep applying band-aids just to win the Scudetto. I think that's our biggest flaw right now. There has to be a better way to transition to a more modern team to compete in the CL while still winning the Scudetto.
To me it's clear that our main objective is to win Italy for an eternity and hope to find low risk, cheap young players that grow into stars (Berardi, Rugani, Leali, Sturaro, Coman, etc.) in the meantime. And our board will favour domestic players like Pereyra who have small wages and are more known quantities even if they don't have huge potential. They know they will fit in the team, work hard, blah blah blah.
Our board is a bit too risk averse for my liking but there are times when it works (ie. Iturbe). If we had signed Iturbe and sacrificed everything else in this mercato and the next one we'd likely be out of 1st place right now and have less money for the summer (if that's even possible). That's how I see the board's motivation. I'm sure if we told Berardi that he'd feature for us all year, he'd be in the team right now. But we won't risk 1st place in Italy to develop Berardi. We want someone else to do that for us while we keep winning Scudetti.
To be honest, I don't know how good of a strategy that is. I guess we'll find out.
Of course, the easy answer is to splash on established players. Of course I'm in favour of that as well but there are serious risks there. We could have sacrificed years of our budget for Falcao. Not sure we'd be that much better off with the way he's looking right now.
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