Me too. Just I don't see that many changes. I think our tighten purse is mostly failure to reach objectives, covid, SuperLeague dreams and last but not least no viable path forward for our 'old strategy'. Now we are in penny-pinching mode and rightly so, but will lose big players and might even fail CL. Icardi, Morata - one with two left feet, the other two middle ones... same old, reheated.
Vlahovic is new, but so was Haaland and we skipped on that. For Morata.
I don't know about Scamacca or something fresh from the lower leagues. Before we could find those players and make use of them instead of strengthening the likes of Sassuolo and Atalanta to the point they might beat us with 1/5 of our budget. Maybe all that will change in the next 2-3 years and hopefully it will, but in the meantime I see it as the cup more than half empty and your 'we just hired X' is wishful thinking in my book.
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If he could be professional enough, yeah. I think he got the money and now has Wanda issues. Besides dry loan for Icardi would be completely wasteful in terms of mentality. More likely he wouldn't care, but who knows that might actually help.