imo we should forget about signing any top player from abroad anymore, pending special circumstances.
we need to do 2 things.
1- focus on the talent in the league: next year the club should go all out for cavani and jovetic
2- focus on developing youth. if we can't afford to play ball with the big boys, then invest in the youth system. we are signings hundreds if youth players, a couple every year or two are bound to be good enough to call up. look at barca. their 3 best players came from their youth academy
Yeah I agree. You could said I'm biased when it comes to our youngsters and I'm not being objective, but I love the fact we already have a few of our youth academy players in the first team. Marchisio turned out to be great, De Ceglie is a decent player also. I'm very impressed with Marrone who is getting better and better. The progress he's making is very impressive for me. Giovinco is all to prove it here but I think he'll do just fine, he's exactly what we need, I keep my fingers crossed for him. In the pre-season I really like that young guy who played RWB at times: Untersee (he got an assist against Benfica when crossed the ball to Krasic). The guy is just 18.
As for next year first thing I would do it would be bringing back Immobile. He deserves his chance and I don't understand why he's not with us right now. I think he's good enough to be a rotation player in attack it's not like we have some killers here. Imo he'd have a bigger chance of succeeding than Bendtner.
As for star players I can see only one available: Jovetic. Marotta is good making deals here in Italy and I don't think it's wrong. Serie A is a specific league so it's very good we take players from here, we just need to buy those who are the best. Honestly my dream would be selling two of: Quag, Matri, Bendtner (leave the best one) and bring back Immobile + getting Jovetic. But If Jovetic won't come it'd be ok, my bet is that after this season Luis Muriel will be a great player too.
I'm all in for the idea of promoting our young players. Pogba is also a very impressive player and he cost us almost nothing. This is how you make big deals. This year I wanted one of Jovetic, Dzeko, Higuain. Next year I don't expect us to spend big once again and it's good, as long us we bring in quality which has it's price too.