oh ffs, we knew months ago that he doesn´t have a "legal say" in the deal. he had to extend his contract with real before he left, remember?
why is this brought up like once a week just to create some kind of tension?
furthermore, i´m so sick and tired of all those know-it-all cunts with their "we should have/we could have/ i would have" bullshit.
"just pay a few million more and get rid of the clause", "just keep every player here against his will and see where it goes", ...
neither of us talked to marotta and co, so nobody knows for sure what was going on during the negotiations with real. we have to go with what was reported by highly credible sources:
- morata was our absolute number 1 target for the striker position, maybe apart from (at the time) absolutely impossible options like cavani.
- real had absolutely zero intention of selling him. they wanted to loan him to a mid-table la liga side.
- morata had absolutely zero intention of breaking with real. therefore, his remaining 1 year contract didn´t help us at all.
- yet, morata wanted to play for a top team -> real agreed to that but only under one condition: repurchase clause.
- several european high profile teams lined up for him and were prepered to offer more and to agree to the repurchase clause.
summing up: we had absolutely zero leverage in the deal.
it was down to two options:
1. accepting the conditions and getting your favourite striker for at least 2 years making guaranteed profit in case of real activating the clause.
2. forgetting about morata and settle for another makeshift solution.
well, thanks for getting us to the cl final alvaro and making us tens of millions. also thanks for kicking out real who "did everything right because juve is always bending over" in the semi-finals

. (yeah, i can be captain hindsight as well...)
i have already mentioned this several times but again:
- should we have taken morata by accepting the clause? fuck yeah!
- would we have prefered a solution without any clause? well of course

- was it possible? highly unlikely
btw: don´t give me shit about the "credible sources" mentioned above. i know di marzio, laudisa and co are far from perfect but considering all other "sources" we got are the asses of always complaining cunts who would have prefered to get immobile instead of morata.... well, i will take my chances.