I am hoping we could sell a few players this summer. Let us see how our management handles sales, because while we are not a 'selling club', we definitely don't have the money to compete with the richest around. We must use the market to close that gap - and that imho is the most important thing now.
Imagine we want to have an upgrade over our RWB (just an example) - we can't do it RM/City's way and just splash 20-30m for the desired player... So our options are: a\ we don't get him, b\we are waiting for him to become a free agent and c\we try to get at least half the money needed from our current starter at this position. Since a\ isn't going to help and b\ is like winning the lottery when we are talking about great players in their primes our hopes must include option C\.
So far I've seen Marotta do some good deals regarding new players, but I've never seen him sell one at a good value. In fact his skills in negotiating a sale are non-existent - if we were to look over his work with us so far! The guy was mocked by Amauri, Iaquinta, Martinez, Melo, Giovinco, Tiago... We have always laid the blame over Secco and while I agree he wasn't good enough - we cannot keep pointing to his shadow as an excuse for the 2013/2014 season. It would be more than ridiculous.
Let's say we get 5+m for Padoin, 5+ for De Ceglie, 8+ for Pepe or Giac... and so on. That would change a lot of things imho.