This season's market is not really in question because at this time we had almost no space anyway.
The markets to evaluate are the lever markets where we had spending money and over those couple years we also issue some hefty contracts and renewals.
Some decisions like the contracts gave to Lewa, Fati, Araujo etc and also decision to let go of players like Dembele were bad management.
I will add as a caveat that bad decisions are naturally highlighted much more due to our situation and top clubs make mistakes with players often, but some of those completely went against logic.
Laporta has also done well in achieving 2 LaLiga titles, though. Its not been all bad, I think the truth is in the middle.
Yup, that's a fair critique. When it comes to signings it's somewhere in the middle. Neither great, neither shit. To try and paint all the transfer work done in the past few years as bad is utter nonsense.
If they had failed to keep Fati and he went on to be world class, same ones complaining about his contract now would be the first to complain how Laporta let him go. Pure Hindsight Harry merchants. Not one person here advocated to let him go because of his excessive demands. Not one.
They complain about Lewa, but the guy has scored bags of goals which were key in 2 league titles. It's not a huge Win as a signing, but neither it is a huge L.
But you get the same shite every time Barca lose a big game. The truth, as you have said, is that the transfer business done under Laporta has been a solid 5-6 out of 10 and not the 2 out of 10 that gets painted conveniently after very loss.
