A lot of these are regular. It's the business model of clubs like Genoa to buy young talent and sell it off for profit to richer teams. If the player became part of the Milan or Inter first team there's nothing to scrutinise imo.
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There are many of these players who are total duds going for big sums.
Sokratis played 5 Serie A games for Milan after his 14m transfer, then the following season went on loan with option for 5m which Olympiakos took.
You know what? With this one example we've found gold.
From wiki:
Genoa and Milan reached an agreement to transfer Papastathopoulos to the club for €14 million, with the following payment schedule: Gianmarco Zigoni (half of his registration rights, valued at €3.75 million), Nnamdi Oduamadi (half of his rights, valued at €3.5 million) and Rodney Strasser (half of his rights, valued at €2.25 million) in a co-ownership deal, plus €4.5 million.
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Oduamadi did stay at Milan though, but was immediately sent out on loan. He played once for the first team as a sub. Milan then bought out Genoa's half and sent him on loan forever although he did play for the primavera as an over-age player. In the Sokratis deal he was valued at 7m euro total.
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Strasser had a similar thing. Genoa got half, he stayed ont he books at milan. He actually did play even in a CL game for Milan but was clearly not good enough and he got loaned forever. His value in this deal is 4.5m eur.
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Looks pretty dodgy if you ask me. We bought a lot of promising talent when Marotta first arrived, and though one or two turned into first team players like Pogba, many didn't (Appelt and Buoy come to mind) and that's whatever. Many we signed who were never supposed to be a part of the first team, we were developing them as a side hustle to sell them on. That's fine too and in a business sense is what the academy is for.
What's weird is when players who are obviously not worth millions get transferred as such, or included in swap deals.
Pinamonti is an example of that. Look at that transfer history, it's absurd when you consider how few games he's played in his career. That is fucking everywhere in Serie A- and the idea that we're getting punished because we went too far with it makes no sense (even if it were the case). Either it's not allowed and we're all going down, or we just accept that's how football clubs stay afloat.
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The prosecutor said that the punishment should be "felt". 9 points would have put us as 28, 6 behind 4th. So they increased it to 15 to get us almost out of the CL race.
If they wanted to demote us to serie B they could have given us 30/40 points. But who knows, that may come with the salary case.
More than anything I'm baffled by the board's silence. Now is not the time to await justice in court. The brand is completely tarnished and with social media today, I'd even say this could potentially exceed the damage done in 2006.
Did he not also say it should be felt enough for us to bump Roma up into the CL places? Or was that somebody else
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