Cron, I think we got more than a fair amount for Criscito.
In 2008/09 we got 1m eur for loaning him to Genoa, in 2009/2010 Genoa bought half of him for 5.5m eur and last summer we got 6m eur for the remaining half. That's 12.5m eur for Criscito. I don't think it's too little.
Zenit bought him for 11m eur this summer, which means that half of him is worth ~5.5m eur, which is actually less than what we got last summer.
We DID overpay dearly for Bonucci. That's not even debatable. But your way of calculating Bonucci's price is wrong imo. Even if we tried to sell half of Almiron and half of Criscito, we weren't gonna get more than the 8.5m eur we got. Adding the 7m cash, it turns out that we paid 15-16m eur for Bonucci. Certainly not more than that.
And also, we did pay 15.5m eur for Bonucci, not a penny more. We paid that in cash. How on earth do you get the 20m?
i believe that we could make more than 11.5 mil from Criscito, Milan and other clubs were ready to overpay more than 15mil for him, with 6mil we could get him back and save our selves from another 15mil acquisition.
The player was valued tha much after a disastrous season on bench, but after a decent seaspn playing as starter, his price naturally has risen, we have accepted the lowest fee possible and made no effort to claim him back and profit some more, or from his services,
we gave up our chances to make profit out of this for Bonucci.
Lets see Marotta to try and buy such a player, after the year he had with Genoa and see how much is he going to pay!!
This is where we disagree, you consider the loss of Criscito a profit and i consider it a loss.
Also giving Almiron's 50% for half the price we gave to get him is also another privilege we let go to sweeten the Bonucci deal.
At any case, this should not interfere with the 15.5 mil fee we gave, for Bonucci, as we lost a players contract for that and would make that cash anyway.
To explain it numbers because some boys have difficulty to follow.
We bought Almiron for 10mil or so. We loaned Criscito as a CB to Genoa and the 50% of his contract for 5-5mil and it was deemed far too little.
Under Gasperini ha had the best season of his career and guess in what position?
Molinaros!!
We were desperate to find a decent replacement and a young and Italian CB, with 6mil we could get him back.
Other Italian clubs like Milan were eager to sign him, for 15mil, a price that Zenit did pay to get him.
A price we would have paid to any club having such a young and Italian player.
There is no way in hell, his price would remain 11mil, so the second 50% of his contract should cost more than 5.5mil
we took just 0.5 more and settled with the likes of Grosso and caceres.
For a 15mil fee Zenit gave his 50% would be, 7.5mil, not 5.5 or 6 we have accepted.
No matter how you look at it, we lost some cash, lets say 1.5+15.5=17mil
And we also gave away Almiron's half for 2.5mil, a player we bought for 9 mil, (9mil-50%=4.5mil)
4.5mil-2.5mil we got = 2mil loss
=>19total loss, no matter how you see it...