03-30-2016, 01:56 AM
I get what you are trying to say, and yes, it is always a good idea to invest in youth. And that, of course, is something Galliani never understood. But other than the financial gain on re-sale, his impact on the field year after year also needs to be adequate for him to be considered a good signing. A team like ours can ill afford to spend 22M on a player and have him not play for two years, because we simply do not have enough quality depth to cover for that. Yes, we might be able to get our initial investment back, but our biggest financial hole isn't the money spent on players, it's on playing horribly and missing CL every year. A player who makes us money on re-sale but doesn't contribute much on the field wouldn't help with that. I wouldn't have thought Thiago would be a bad signing for us by any means, but hindsight being 20-20, if a player who costs 22M is that injury prone, we as a team have to stay away from it.