...which is fine, because otherwise he'll keep rotting in serie-b and never become a great striker. There is a big difference between LOANING OUT a player and giving him in the so-called COMPROPRIETA. The loan thing is fine but not for every player/every team. See giovinco; we're lucky that he's already on a high level now and come back, otherwise he'd have gone in a comproprieta too. Loaned out players don't have the same status in a team as the team players themselves. There's always this 'he'll be gone after this season anyway'-thing in the minds of coaches/directors. (that's also why giovinco didn't play every game for 90 mins although he clearly was one of the best in empoli) Players who are owned (or owned in comproprieta) have more of a regular pressure on them, they can integrate into a team and they will be treated normally.
Believe it or not, it's the best thing for us and for lanzafame that we give him away now (half of him) and then rebuy him in 2 years or so. Every other scenario would have harmed someone. Taking him back now would obviously have been idiotic...
By the way, it's not that we are going to loose a fortune on him. We'll always be ahead of palermo when it will come down to the 'buste' and we surely can spend 10 millions or so in 2 or 3 years. until then, we save his wages, and profit amauri