Stop saying that Zaza cost 18 million, you can't look at that transaction in isolation. We got 7.5 million for half of him last year (too much), and it's intertwined with the Berardi deal as well.
I've being in eternal discussions about it.
Zaza was a player fully owned by Sassuolo last year.
Previous business with him were awesome.
Jun 2012 - Zaza is fully owned by Sampdoria. Loaned out to Ascoli in Serie B.
Jun 2013 - Zaza had 1 yr contract left with Sampdoria. Sampdoria sells him to Juve, his full rights, for 3.5M (+ paying 2M for landing 1/2 Gabbiadini for 5.5M)
Jun 2013 - Juve, after buying full Zaza for 3.5M, sells 1/2 to Sassuolo for 2.5M.
Jun 2014 - Sassuolo buys the other half for 7.5M.
Jun 2015 - Juve pays 18M for him.
So basically we bought him for 3.5M, got 10M for Sassuolo 1 yr later. 6.5M profit. Buys him for 18M. 11.5M total cost.
The thing is that the operations are set apart. We weren't obliged to buy Zaza this year. We had done brillant previous deals regarding him, making a profit of 6.5M in just one year.
But then we took the bad decision of paying 18M for him this year. We could just let him at Sassuolo for another year, he was a Sassuolo player and they obviously wanted to keep the guy - this was stated many times.
So, 2013-2014 - excellent business regarding Zaza.
2015 - bad business regarding Zaza.
What proves the fact it was separate operations?
Because his full rights were valued 15M last year and 18M this year. They paid 7.5M for half a year ago. So basically, if last year we said: buy him now, we'll buy him back next year. Then we paid 3M to loan the guy out to Sassuolo. Doesn't make much sense.
Berardi's influence on the deal may be on the price, but not in the decision to take Zaza back. I actually like him as prospect CF rotation Italian player, but we had other positions to reinforce before the 4th or 5th striker of the squad.
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15M for Draxler was NOT an insulting offer.
I agree. Definitely not. He's not worth more than 15M + bonus at this point. If they consider it insulting, great. Don't raise the offer, don't do the deal.