So, we will spend the 30 mil Morata buy back clause to resign a talented Italian player who was already ours?
Well hopefully he will become a better finisher than Morata...
He was never ours.
He was a Sassuolo player. In 2013 we bought half of his contract for 4,5m euro. In 2015 we sold our half back to Sassuolo for 10m euro. Now, just like before we bought his half in 2013, he's a Sassuolo player. As a matter of fact, so far we earned 5,5m euro from Berardi, by buying half of his contract from Sassuolo and then selling it to the same club.
If we now buy him for 25m euro, it means that he'll cost the club 19,5 million euro overall for transfer.
If we didn't sell him for 10m and still owned half of his contract, now we would have paid some 12-15m euro for the other half, and when you add the 4,5m euro we paid back in 2013, it's more or less the same amount (17-19m euro).