but look at the big thing you're missing. Our net spend is only like 190mil - way behind everyone else on that list except Athletico.
You're having a dig at Rocchi, but in half a season he's scored more than any Primavera striker we've had since... probably Balotelli? Livaja had 13 games that season and scored 4 in the EL - Rocchi played 15 games and scored 3 in the league (Cant check how many minutes he had on transfermarkt)
The thing is, if we were regularly producing even rotation level Serie A strikers/midfielders, we could talk about it being a waste. But we dont.
Wanna know who was in the primavera that we could have promoted instead of Rocchi?
Francesco Forte, Bocar Djumo, Matteo Colombi, Marko Livaja.
Well, Forte is finally in Serie A with Venezia, after scoring 14 in Serie B last year (not bad) having spent his entire carrer at Serie C/Serie B level (1 match ever of Serie A) - finally breaking through aged 28. Bocar Djumo never even played Serie C level, instead he's been playing 5th and 4th tier football in Germany, Matteo Colombi's last update was playing in SERIE D, and everyone here should know Livaja.
Those are hardly comparable to Rocchi.
Truth is, from the last 10 years, the only youth propsects we can really show any level of regret towards are Bonucci, Zaniolo (not really an Inter prospect as he was already released by Fiorentina) IMHO. The other ones off the top of my head who are roughly Serie A level are Biraghi, Destro, Duncan, Benassi, MBaye. Who of those would you want at Inter? Personally, none.
The other option we had would have been to keep Luc Castaignos, whose career peaked at Inter/Twente and went rapidly downhill after (he now plays in Crete, having just come back from 2 seasons in Korea), or samuele fucking longo, who in 2012-2013, went to Espanyol and played 20 games, scoring 3 goals, before moving to Verona in Serie A for 13-14 where he played 3 games and scored 1 goal (Coppa) before having his loan terminated early.
Is your suggestion that someone who couldnt even start for Verona, would have been better than Rocchi?
Rocchi is peak banter era, but he's scored more Serie A league goals in that one season, and more Serie A appearances, than basically any of the other options we oculd have reasonably had for him *IN THEIR ENTIRE CAREERS*