Rabiot is worth more than 5m, that is why you should get him. Forget about his contract expiring. In the books he'll be worth more than 15m as soon as you sign him.
If our midfield remains as Pirlo, pogba and vidal then he'll be on bench so other offers where is may be guaranteed to start may become a deciding factor. Unless formations and tactics change to implement him in but I highly doubt that Conte would have him in his starting plans.
But I agree...at the end of the day you bring in two players like coman and rabiot and pay under 10m all up, that isn't bad business.
Roma, Inter, Juve, PL teams. Hmm, if i was Rabiot as footballer and only, i would join Roma to take more chances. When there is Marchisio, Pirlo, Vidal and Pogba he will not take games on his feet this year. Perhamps and the next year.
Rabiot for 5 mill sounds like a steal, but he's more of an investment than a necessity for our squad, and we're probably better off not competing with another team for a signing like this.
We quite badly need another good midfielder on the bench for depth purposes. Our midfield played a ridiculously high amount of minutes last season, and that's bad when you have a very young Pogba, a man who runs his ass off in Vidal and a very old Pirlo