I don't like this soft approach Marotta appears to take.
It sounds like he asked Vidal whether he wanted to leave rather than the other way around. Why bother asking?
He says if Bayern say that they will sell Gotze we will be interested. How about we tell Bayern to sell us Gotze or we won't sell them Vidal?
If Bayern really want Vidal make them pay an appropriate price. Morgan Schneiderlin who was playing in the third tier in England a few years ago just went for more.
Why did we just let Pirlo and Tevez leave for basically nothing just because they want to go?
He says Vidal had a contract expiring in two years and Bayern would offer him a 5 year deal. He is only 28, why don't we offer him 5 years?
Clearly if Vidal is refusing to sign a new contract and demanding to leave fair enough. But it doesn't sound like that was the case and we could have at least got better money for him.
He was a major reason for us getting to the Champions League final. He was superb in the knockout stage.
Why spend a whole year getting the guy back to form only to sell him on the cheap?