What I honestly don't get is although I do believe this Financial Fair Play system will come into effect soon, so I don't mind that we bank our revenues generated from the treble. However we did have an excess of 60 million from the sales and co-ownership deals that we made this transfer market and spent an abysmal percentage of that. I just don't see why we don't use the rest of the 45+ Million that we have from the sales, that amount is enough to get 1 world class player. We've sold Balotelli more than 2 weeks ago yet since his sale it really seemed like Inter just gave up and Branca went on vacation and I don't know what other shenanigans was going on.
I honestly think that it was disrespectful towards Rafa that they didn't even take his preferred players seriously when they decided to bid for them, they should have either said "No, we have other options" or make a serious attempt. However, wasting 2-3 weeks on 2 players you knew you didn't want was just a waste of time. I think had Inter pursued Schweinsteiger seriously and made a bid with whatever money we have left from sales I'm 100% sure with the help of our network with Matthaus and Brehme and Klinsmenn we'd have gotten him but I think that Inter really dropped the ball.
There is still time for us all to be surprised, however to be honest it doesn't seem realistic nor logical. If i went over to your house today and told you I'll buy your car for 1 million dollars but you know that it would mean that you'll have to walk to work (which is 5 km's away) for the next year because although you have money but there's no automobiles in the market to replace yours you'll be very hesitant. That's the same case with clubs, although we could overvalue some players and spend on them, it's not logical for the teams to sell them with minimal time, or theoretically no time at all to find a replacement.
Finally, I think the Cesc bid was a joke. I don't work in the football business for a living and I already know that even if Arsenal were to sell Cesc and accept the bid he himself would not choose to move to anywhere but Barcelona because he has his eye on that destination so the fact that we even attempted, and the attempt came from people who do this for a living is actually bewildering. I think the transfer team misjudged the situation and thought they can show Benitez that they were going for his targets, which I feel he'd find disrespectful knowing that he can easily call and ask what they actually bid for. I mean this happened to me where I worked on a bid for a project and sent it to a department to review it and then they submitted it without telling me and we lost the project, and later on just out of curiosity I called a contact I had at the other company to ask why our bid was rejected and he said that my price was too high and I told him that there was no way that this was the case and I'm sure I gave in a competitive price and it turns out that the department i sent it to actually marked up the value of the bid and we lost the project because of that and knowing the truth I became so angry I couldn't see straight. Bottom line if I was Benitez I'd really get furious over what happened and this isn't the way to treat your coach in his first year with the club.
10 years of FIF
