A case where a manager might care about salary would be signing player A means they can’t sign player B or improve a certain position. They may not care about the actual numbers but they should have an idea of the implications of their signings in relation to effect on overall project.
that's how english clubs operate. italian managers rather function like pure coaches. it has been said multiple times by juve coaches that the club handles the mercato. of course the coach can have requests (part of the folklore of the last couple of years: sarri requested jorginho and allegri wanted isco for years), and allegri was spotted having a lunch with cherubini even before his appointment, but at the end of the day, it's the directors (marotta, paratici, now cherubini) who have the final word.
on an other note: what potential implications donnarumma's arrival could have had? szczesny was always going to stay, locatelli (the only
expensive signing with his 2 years of free loan lol) was always going to come. if donnarumma was feasible, an investment that would have drawn a large cash outflow for both the player (as wages) and his agent, why didn't we get anybody else?
right after ronaldo left, italian media started to write that allegri wasn't happy with the mercato, he allegedly even told the club that weakening the squad wasn't part of their deal. now the same media writes that allegri, for the first time in the unibrow era, micromanaged juve's mercato as a coach. that's some confusion by the media, isn't it.
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Noone was expecting Woj go full Van der Sar...
this too