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When did he arrive? 19/20? Since then weve a net spend of - 52m, salaries are high yes but you can't complain about that then also complain about not renewing skriniar. It's clear we need to cut salaries. In the words of Zanetti on skriniar, we offered a renewal within our means and he declined it due to an offer we can't compete with.
He's absolutely on a budget.
He's on a budget that said let's sign Lukaku for 13m gross on a loan instead of Dybala on 10m gross. Which is pretty much Skriniar's pay hike that never came.
Skriniar would have accepted the offer, he didn't leave because of money, he left due to lack of respect towards him. He was going to sign for 5.5m actually but then Marotta decided, WITHIN MINUTES, to sell him, which irritated both him and his agent. And even Zhang, who wanted at least 40% more from a Skriniar sale to PSG. And that opened a can of worms with PSG promising him twice as much and then he realized that this isn't worth keep going. Why do you think Curva Nord changed their minds after speaking with the player? That's Marotta fucking up, simple as. He didn't even bother talking about a new deal until fucking October.... And Skriniar hadn't even accepted PSG until he talked with Inter again.... You cannot mistreat players all the time and then whine in the media that they're not loyal and that they want out... Of course they will eventually want out when you're in charge and you behave this way!
That -52m net is for 2018-19 until this season, Marotta's time counts from 2019-20 and on and the first season includes cases of sales from players that were shipped before Marotta came but their option/obligation triggered then. And it's a bit creative, when you consider the Lukaku sale is included there and you conveniently forget how that was managed eventually. And the figures aren't really exact but let's pretend they are. The transfer money in from the summer of 2019 are all Ausilio's deals with Radu, Vanheusden, Ansaldi, Manaj, Puscas and Adorante plusvalenza marathon. Marotta only sold Barbosa, which wasn't even a thing as he got as much as the option was but actually managed to pay his January salary because he couldn't negotiate down
So it's more like Marotta has a positive net spend after all, even with Lukaku's sale.
But it doesn't even matter. I don't care about the net spend, I care about the outflow. Why are we pretending that there's been no money all this time? The only season we had zero funds was last summer. And what did we do? Waste over 20m for Lukaku. You know what cost 20m in Serie A this season? Kvaratschkelia and Dybala.... combined!
Resources aren't great but resource management is beyond appalling!
Failure to negotiate extensions in a timely manner.
Failure to secure targets, then insist on them while everyone else knows about them and the price is higher than your budget. End up with nothing instead of changing focus.
Failure to sell unwanted players.
Failure to keep core players intact because you want the easy way out, yet the players don't even wanna entertain listening to offers, let alone leave. Thus:
Failure to get maximum from player sales (with the exception of Lukaku where we found some madman who spent another 600m on random kids from youtube)
How's any of that not the management's fault???