I definitely agree with us having to spend if we want to improve or keep up with European elite, I was just disagreeing that 24m is nothing to us, it's probably half of our transfer budget
If he flops badly and is benched by soon to be grandfathers Licht/Barzagli, I don't expect anyone will want to cover his 5m salary and we know what usually happens when brazilians are asked to take a paycut to start a fresh challenge, we'd be begging for him to accept China
