How did we pay his salary exactly? His current club are paying his salary, and we got money out of the deal. What we're going to pay in return is a fee because they took a player in his freshman Serie A season and gave him playing time. A perfectly valid investment, like sending your children to a good school.
What makes you think we will lose the first spot? We had a significantly worse squad past season and what pulled us through that season was the physical preparedness of our players. Come February I expect us to do exactly the same we did last season, simply outrun all the other teams in Serie A.
I don't know how far we can go in CL, but do you focus on what we will potentially not achieve instead of celebrating the fact that we finished first in one of the tougher CHL groups?
There's the trohpy left to win.
No, we are now just in positions because it's January and not June.