Zach, JJ posted a list of our expenditures in the past day or so, that included the loan redemptions from the deals struck last year (and did not include our most recent buys -Giac & Esti if true), and it was something like 76M spent, 14M earned from sales/loans. We have still spent a considerable amount of money, especially when you consider 3 of our new faces are Bosmans.
This is why teams hire coaches who are flexible enough to employ formations that largely complement the existing personnel, why it's important to allow youngsters to fill out a few roster spots, and why it's not a good idea to get rid of useful players for next to nothing.
transfer budged says little, its all about your wage budged in italy, and that is very low at current.
sure we can spend 70 mil in transfers, but get a quarter of the epl wage budged.
What a bunch of bullshit.
So you think that justifies filling the squad with random average players? Marotta didn't have any problems signing the Martinez's and Pepe's and certainly not for cheap. You know why? Because there wasn't any interest from any other clubs and could negotiate his pathetic terms with them.
Vidal was the bundesliga best CM, marotta got him from under bayeren's nose.
Vucinic, was 7 mil under the price roma wanted, on a relative low wage. he is class and quality, preseason proved this.
Lichtsteiner is the second best rightback in serie a.
Pirlo is allready proving to be vital for us.
quag proved himself before his injury
and matri had quite a nice scoring record and will surely score plenty as strikersub.
what average signings ?
if we now get one of alex/lugano/alves, we significantly increased every position apart from leftwing
and on that leftwing, we are looking to give promising players a chance
what average signings ?