Goal.com arent interested in facts as we know, just twisitng or inventing them. Baptista will NOT get 4.5m euro himself. 4.5m is what Roma will play in total with tax. After tax, Baptista will get half of that, 2.2m or so. Its not small salary, but not big either, he got more in Real.
And Roma arent rich, but not that poor for you to be suprised the paid 9m euros for Baptista. They have allways around 20m euro transfer budget, they have barely touched it this mercato, bought half of Vucinic, otherwise no other spending. Free signing in Riise, penny pinching swaps and minor deals to get Loria. Called back Montella and Okaka. Thats basically it.
They squad isnt looking like much ,and them struggling the mercato to get players, makes 10 times even more unlikely they are willing to let go of Aquilani.