Some of you have a very short memory.
Let me remind you the essence here.
Juventus at that time was only buying SSs. Finishers, prolific finishers, forwards able to score more than 20 league goals per season are extremely rare, most of the times, only last a few seasons and tend to be the most expensive players in the world.
At the time, inflation was blowing prices out of the window.
Marotta has been struggling to find such a player and has been failing each and every year since he joined us, for various reasons.
Smaller teams were all having better finishers than us, we were unable to scout and find the new Cavanis and were unable to sign Falcaos, Dzekos and Higuains from abroad.
Juventus had money and other Italian teams were asking double and triple prices for the players we were interested and we were paying them for mediocre quality.
Higuain's clause was signed right before the crazy inflation happened and after we would need at least 80mil to buy such a prestigious player.
All players and managers in the world were hesitant to talk with Juventus because we never made such a transfer before, we never owned such a finisher since Trezequet and Marotta never made such an expensive and prestigious player in his career.
We also knew that Napoli were interested for cheaper and more mediocre forwards and they would be weakened after this steal, esp their prestige and premium players would prefer us from now on, just like they prefer Bayern in Germany.
Higuain's prestigious status would ensure better sponsorship deals, TV rights and millions of jerseys sold.
So his value and the significance of this transfer goes way beyond his terrain contribution, which was not bad anyway, he was less of a finisher that we expected, but he scored crucial goals and helped in the build up much more than expected.
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