We will make the right moves and Marotta's words are not to be taken literally. It would be foolish if he went to the media to publicly announce our budget. Every player out there would be 20-30% more expensive.
Someone said Lulić for the wing, yeah right, he'd be no better than Asamoh or Licht. If we're gonna change to 4-3-3, than we need proper wingers for those spots.
Again people keep on insisting that we need to sell to afford our purchases, which simply isn't true of we go by the numbers from previous couple of years.
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The fact is that in previous few years we needed to fill the gaps and thus most of mediocrity was brought. This summer we can afford 25m player and couple of bargain deals.
Yes.
If you pay 25M for a player in 5 installments (which is perfectly normal), it's 5M + salary in the budget. Obviously the club can afford it. Next summer a lot of installments from signings of 3/4 years ago will be finished (Bonucci, Pepe, Quagliarella, Vucinic, Licht, etc).
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But I agree that the club's plan is to go smooth once more this summer, only to really spend some serious amount in 2015 summer (raise in sponsorship, new adidas deal, TV deal, finish of installments for lots of players).
However I'm sure Conte will demand some serious signings of the players he wants, so the club might just spend a considerable amount this summer to keep him happy and spend a bit less next year.
This would probably be a good solution. This team needs to be renewed. If we keep the same players and 352, I doubt we'd even win Scudetto. It's the end of its cycle. It's waaaay too predictable now.
So I do believe there's a real chance club will spend higher this summer due to Conte's demands.
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