Possibly, depends who were offered. Maybe Isla? These are complicated deals, anyway. I think Britos only moved on the condition he would go to the PL with Watford, Udinese are in quite a unique situation there.
We have too many youngsters that could have been included in co-owns or the likes. Cerri, Vitale, you name it.
I mentioned at the beginning of the summer that I was having a hard time understanding our plan for this summer. I was surprised by us getting Mandzukic, Dybala and Khedira so early and so fast and closing the market early in July after we got in advanced talks on Rugani and Zaza and the deals with Boca. Marotta repeated by that time on many occasions that we are keeping our stars unless they ask to leave. Was he so sure that this opportunity is far fetched? At that time it looked like we might have signed and AM if the opportunity rises, the typical deals that he is really good at. Then came the Vidal saga and right after it looked like we are depserate, and when you are desperate, you really cannot buy.
For me, tihs is an aftermath of a non-planned summer. Great early deals but they did not have any ground. I bet they thought that Tevez will see his deal out when they bought Dybala. Mandzukic was bought in order to let Llorente go. Now that Tevez is gone these two became key players all of a sudden which lead to the panic overspending on Zaza.
The same goes for Khedira, when both Pirlo and Vidal left, we starting looking everywhere and get rejected up until the latest words, we are trying to get a midfielder with no specific qualities whatsoever, only to fill up.
Ogbonna - Rugani look calculated though also Sturari - Neto