10 mil net spend is not overpaying for Zaza.
Tevez forced us into a deal, Boca was $#@!ting it up. We could have said "$#@! off" and Tevez would have just refused to return.
We let go of Llorente to get rid of his wages. We bought for free, we let go for free
Dybala was not "overpaid". We would have never ever been able to get him for a good deal. We would have been outbid if we didnt went immediatly for him. This was the only way to get him, simple as that.
Dyabala was on the last year of his contract and had one good season in Serie A. This is not a young Aguero, Draxler, Gotze or Griezman who all had plenty of top level first team football and are seen as the future of their national teams. I am not aware of a major bidding war amongst the rich clubs over him. 40 million is an expensive transfer especially for a young unproven kid. Ozil for instance went for 50 mills and thats after many years of world class football with both the NT and Madrid. ATM bought Griezzman (who has far more experience than Dybala has) and was drawing attention from EPL clubs for 30 mills. So again 40 million is a lot of money for a youngster let alone one who has one year left on his contract and one good season in Serie A. If he does turn out to be world class then you'd think we did not over pay but the same applies if we had paid 50 or 60 and he did turn out to be the next aguero.
On Llorente, how much we paid for him does not matter. Its not like you expected us to rescind his contract. Everyone here was expecting at least 7-10 mills for him including yourself. That is under selling. We paid nothing to get him but that also applies to Pogba and I doubt anyone would be happy with him walking out for free.
He is still a very good striker his value now certainly is not a zero. Management let him go to release his wages to cut down on expenses but that again applies to any player we have. You can sell a player to release his wages but you dont have to give him away for no transfer fee at all.
Similarly, Tevez is not worth nothing. We bought him for 9 mills when he was benched for over a year, city was kicking him out and no one else wanted him. After two extremely successful seasons, Tevez's valuation should be a lot higher than 9 mills let alone zero. He is not a potato. I do understand he had marotta by the balls and was determined to leave to Boca in specific but its marotta's job to negotiate with him and with boca. Giving him for free again is giving another expensive gift.
I do not understand the whole Zaza situation. They paid us 8 million for him then we paid them 18 but really he is part of the berrardi deal where we gave berrardi to them on the cheap and will buy him back a little more expensive but less than his real valuation whatever that means. What the hell is going on? Why would we do all of that I dont understand? add to that the mess from last week were we wanted to sell zaza for 18 million to westham or send him out on loan.
Explain to me your theory about whats going on with Zaza by himself, how that relates to the Berardi deal and what motivation did we have to make this extremely convoluted plan