that's at least one luxury player for the bench.
selling higuain is not a sports-related choice. we can talk for weeks about his strengths, weaknesses, weight, diet, form, dedication, natural scoring instinct, hairstyle, mental midgetry (etc), but bottom line is that he costs 34m per year. like it or not, the club is selling him, regardless of his pre-season performances. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
btw in case we wanted to keep him, we could have already offered him a contract extension just to keep his amortization on a more tolerable level.