With 11 new players in, you hope that you just hit on more than you miss on. Kalinic was requested by Montella specifically and hopefully we can get back 15 mil at the very least.
Andre Silva performed well in Europe and is young enough that we can either stick with him for one more year or recoup most of our money/swap him. In either case the struggle of both has led to a lot of growth for Cutrone at least.
Conti is a question mark. We all liked the transfer, hopefully he can come back from these injury setbacks. The only silver lining was Calabria’s growth.
In regards to the other players, Kessie, Hakan, Bonucci and Biglia more than proved their worth, based on expectations and prices I cannot complain about any of them. Borini was cheap and is versatile, did not complain and chipped in more than I thought he would early in the season. RR grew at the end of the season, lacks pace but people forget he did not cost us very much at 18 mil and Mus who cost the same performed quite well when called upon.
Objectively it was a decent transfer campaign based on the massive project at hand. The reason why people are upset is that Kali and Andre were two of the larger purchases, as was Conti, although injuries cannot be blamed upon the player. Somewhat luckily but due to opportunity and solid youth development, Cutrone and Calabria showed a lot at those two positions.