Yes he was indeed, we knew that, but this did not affect his efforts here.
The circle of signing Italians just because of their nationality has (hopefully for good ) closed (unfortunately except from the center of the defense)
Matri was never good enough to base upon him on the long run, esp for a finisher.
So we were always going to sell him and since we let him choose where he goes, regardless if this hurts our financial or competition interests, i guess this was bound to happen.
He chose the team of his heart, so we have less financial profits and strengthen a direct competitior...
But anyways, we are used at being abused by our players, whom we are not own, but they own us, luckily this time we did not lose more than 50% of our investment, as it usually happens in these cases...