Winter mercato 2022 (30 Viewers)
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The timing of the end of our cycle couldn't of came at a worst time due to Covid.
It's going to be so hard to make this team strong enough to win Serie A again never mind dominate it the way we were used to.
I think it will be 3 years before we reach a high level again longer if we don't make it into the CL every year.
3 or 4 massive signings either by spending big money or getting lucky is the only thing that can save us and the chances of that are slim to none.
It's going to be so hard to make this team strong enough to win Serie A again never mind dominate it the way we were used to.
I think it will be 3 years before we reach a high level again longer if we don't make it into the CL every year.
3 or 4 massive signings either by spending big money or getting lucky is the only thing that can save us and the chances of that are slim to none.
To be honest it probably started before that when we sold Vidal and Pogba without properly replacing them. But I think we had a good enough squad remaining to still be succesful, which we were with Allegri. We should have been able to manager way through it and were doing that up to a point.
What has really cost us has been overpaying for average but expensive players (either high wages or fees), whilst also losing important players with grinta (Lichsteiner, Mandzukic, even Tevez):
Rabiot
Ramsey
Morata
Kean
Kulusevski
Bernardeschi
Arthur
Higuain (Not an average player by any means. He was an excellent striker and I really liked him but 90m to release a few seasons later was terrible business)
Bonucci (Huge wages, we brought him back on higher wages after flopping at Milan than he was on at his peak before that)
Just about every transfer decision we have made over the past few seasons has been a poor one. But I struggle to think of worse deals than:
Arthur / Pjanic
Spinazzola/Pellegrini
Romero
All absolutely woeful transfers.
With hindsight the Ronaldo deal didn't work out but I can see why we gambled on it.
What has really cost us has been overpaying for average but expensive players (either high wages or fees), whilst also losing important players with grinta (Lichsteiner, Mandzukic, even Tevez):
Rabiot
Ramsey
Morata
Kean
Kulusevski
Bernardeschi
Arthur
Higuain (Not an average player by any means. He was an excellent striker and I really liked him but 90m to release a few seasons later was terrible business)
Bonucci (Huge wages, we brought him back on higher wages after flopping at Milan than he was on at his peak before that)
Just about every transfer decision we have made over the past few seasons has been a poor one. But I struggle to think of worse deals than:
Arthur / Pjanic
Spinazzola/Pellegrini
Romero
All absolutely woeful transfers.
With hindsight the Ronaldo deal didn't work out but I can see why we gambled on it.
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