this is an excellent post, and i'm sure the investment of marotta in the millions of youths we bought in the last 2 years is meant to to find 3-4 that are good enough to be in the first team. We should be looking hard at barca's model of producing talented youths and replicate that.
the other big step is finding a replacement for marchsio in hamsik or hernanes
Agreed as well.
Perhaps Pogba can step up and take Marchisio's spot, but tbh I am thinking another 30m offer and Marchisio should be sold...
We should either buy a top quality striker, someone that will raise the level of the first team significantly or implement young talent and get the best of 'what we have'... sell or play !
Besides, I don't think the salary structure alone will scare off strikers. There are bonuses that might compensate it. For instance: we can easily pay 5-6m without taxes to top forward. Add 10m signing bonus and his wage is already 7 excl. performance related payments. Falcao, Benzema, Higuain, Jovetic, Lewandowski, Balotelli - all of them we could sign if we wanted. Wasting 15m on Oslvaldo, 12m for Martinez, 18m on Matri and 11? on Giovinco deprives us from the financial power to actually get one of those top players. Hell, dear Iaquinta is still sucking close to 4m wages before tax, Amauri was 25+m and that wasn't long ago either...
It's a lie, we DON'T have the money.
PS: Why are we getting another young italian keeper? We have 2 top keepers and Leali, no?