The answer is imo, Del neri didn't want him. because he plays 4-4-2. and he kept on saying "diego is a starter, diego is this and that" to try to get a higher deal (which didn't work) for that they waited until the end of the transfer window. I bet quag's transfer was on hold until diego left.
If true, this is stupid on so many levels.
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The answer is imo, Del neri didn't want him. because he plays 4-4-2. and he kept on saying "diego is a starter, diego is this and that" to try to get a higher deal (which didn't work) for that they waited until the end of the transfer window.
So the assumption is that we had a bif for Diego but it was low and we played him and said that he's a starter just to get a higher deal?
First it's stupid to play him in the friendlies and the EL qualifiers because if he got injured we'd have gotten nothing and lost even the existing bid.
Second, if we put Diego on the market for 17-18m eur, we'd have made it clear to everyone that he's on sale and probably more clubs would have made a bid, thus we could have started a bidding war for him.
The way we played it, if what you say is true, couldn't be more stupid.
I bet quag's transfer was on hold until diego left.
Quag has no pride and is very stupid in this case.
So we make a deal with him and put it on hold until we sell Diego. Quag must have wondered what will happen if we don't manage to sell Diego.
Then, when we finally sell Diego, the same day we make a bid for Borriello, he rejects us and the next day we are rejected by Di Natale. Have in mind that all this was public and our directors admitted too that we had unsuccessful bids for those two.
And if what you say above is true, Quag was sitting and watching how we make bids for everything that moves, hoping that those bids will be rejected. Quag had troubles with Napoli's board and he wanted to leave. What if Di Natale accepted our bid? Were we going to leave Quag in Napoli to the mercy of the owner, who just like Lottito, was gonna forbid his coach to play Quagliarella?
I could accept that we wanted to sell Diego from the start. But the way we did it was terrible. All we achieved was to sell him for the cheapest price possible and to pay his wages in June, July and August (that's +1m eur for wages and almost as much for taxes).