Firstly, goal.com is not a reliable source.
Secondly, I think you are misreading, or rather being mislead by how they have worded it. There isn't any suggestion Juve are going to offer €14m-€15m PLUS players, those players would be part of the deal.
And please stop referencing that Bonucci-Criscito deal, it's getting embarrassing. Although maybe explained by your response above.
For Bonucci we paid:
€5m cash
Criscito ½ (valued at €6m)
€2m cash
Almiron ½ (valued at €2.5m)
Total: €15.5m
i ve explained in a really long post and in great detail, as objectively as i could.
I trust no one is in the mood to hesr it again and i dint have tge patience to track that post, but i ll sum it up, with what i remember.
We did allocatec 15 mil in cash from our transfer budget, paid in installments doesnt matter, as we havw a limit in annual budget allocation.
This sum was paid and starts as a common ground for all.
Now from there we have also participated in three more players sales, Criscito, Almiron and one more.
We have sold have of those players contracts for a price. Some of those negotiations would have happened anyway and would have add to our budget, this should not change the fact that 15 mil were allocated to Bonucci.
its like saying that because of the Giaccherrini sale, we actually bought Tevez for a couple of mils...
Whats more infuriating is that the players we have sold were sold in crazy low prices, only to sweaten the Bonucci deals, we have accepted to sell those players with huuge loses, only to make the Bonucci deal happen.
This was not in our financiasl interest, nor for such low fees, it only happened to get him, so instead of cutting the profit made from those deals to the 15 mil we alocated on Bonucci, we should rather add to the 15 mil the combinef ammount of loses that we have suffered, only to make this transfer happen.
Judging by those players market transfers right in the previous season and adding the combinef loses of capital, if i remember correctly, it adds up to a total loss of 21,5 mil.
That without counting the points, games and titles we have lost, so that Bonucci grows to a semi professional footballer, to a player that doesnt loses a game by himself...