Giovinco and Immobile have no personal magical connection. One failed to live up to expectations. That has absolutely no impact on Immobile.
They way MArotta has handled their contracts with those loans with an option to buy is one and the same.
Being such talents, he ought not accept a loan with an option to buy, or at least get a decent ammount for their value, close to their potential, or decide the ammount of the 50% after his season there, or impose a buy back clause, close to the value the club that benefits from their services has invested for their contract, or at least give us the opportunity to get him back, without owning the full contract and hand them 50% from a future sale, or asking them to pay the other 50% if they want to keep the player.
There are a variety of options to chooce from, as we are the ones having on our hands the player's contract
at any case, we should avoid getting hard owned as we did in Giovinco's case, strictly speaking from the financial/managerial perspective of the player's ownwership.
Owing the contracts of such talents ought to give us a financial advantage, we cannot keep losing money with every deal we are completing...
