Just heard on Sky that Marina wanted to buy Anthony two years ago at £15m after being offered him by A**x. The higher ups at Chelsea turned her down. Man Utd just paid £85m for him two years later.
We've really missed her shrewdness this summer.
Conveniently ignoring the fact that we got rejected by Haaland, and instead of working with & developing Tammy the manager told her to sign Lukaku. He is repeating the same mistakes this summer again.
Meh I am gonna try and not get upset or angry about this for a while. I feel it is very unlikely we make top 4 and accept this is a season of huge transition we came in to without a much needed director of football. Todd and Co will have a steep learning curve but at least they are showing genuine interest and putting their money where their mouths are.
Maybe he went to A**x after we didn't move on him, i don't know. I just assumed he was offered by A**x. Don't knwo where he was before that tbh
We def haven't had good transfer windows since the Costa and Fabregas window but at least there haven't been issues with negotiations. With Marina you usually knew if we were getting the player or not after 1 or two meetings this summer it has taken us four or more meetings with representatives before getting a player or learning that we won't get them.
That the same budget that saw us spunk 100m on Lukaku? 70m on Kepa? 70m on Havertz? etc...? It's no different really. And there's no need to get all defensive and start name-calling like a child.
Marina did her job perfectly. Not her fault that the players she was negotiating for were sometimes bad, the deals were not and definitely not her fault that the managers had no clue what to do with many players and who to give time and patience for, we were the team that could have had in the same lineup De Bruyne in the middle, Hazard on the left and Salah on the right, we blew it.
The De Bruyne, Hazard and Salah signings were nothing to do with Marina - as well you know Gol15
I only said that cause you never engage, I don't think you ever replied to me whenever I discussed things before. I've encountered this behaviour before in other forums and they always reply when it's a clapback. No hard feelings just wanted to satisfy my psychological curiosity.
My point is that the managers in charge were far more damaging than she was, in no way did she ever make any decision that hurt the club. Big clubs don't really get to have a net win usually, we only had one at some point due to the transfer ban after which we sold Hazard for 100m+. Again, she makes the deals, she doesn't scout the players so when Conte was super confident that Bakayoko and Morata will be new key players she made the deals, same when the club identified that somehow Kepa is the future and such a talented keeper and all she had to do was to hurry up cause we had no keeper and it was no different when Tuchel wanted Lukaku after Haaland wasn't going to sign.The De Bruyne, Hazard and Salah signings were nothing to do with Marina - as well you know Gol15
She was however in charge for the 12 players signed since 2016 who have subsequently been sold for a £217 million loss on what was paid for them, and that figure will only get worse when Bakayoko, Kepa, Lukaku, Ziyech, Pulisic etc etc leave the club.