Busquets earns 8.5M net, it's already more than Bonucci. If both players stay on the same wages then both clubs will save in wages. Busquets comes from abroad so his gross wages would be quite lower than those of Bonucci, even if he earns more net. It's thanks to the new tax laws in Italy.
I don't know if Chiellini is retiring but we need a starting partner for De Ligt, and that can not be Bonucci. Hes simply not good enough. Chiellini would stay as a reserve, we need experienced warriors on the bench to play whenever necessary without complaining, and he's exactly that. Bonucci far less so. We should try to keep him another year. Romagnoli is better than Bonucci. It doesn't have to be him, but we need someone to start next to De Ligt.
Busquets is the type that controls games and tempo, directs the play, starts attacks and is good defensively as well, especially would be here since we don't stay so high all the time like Barcelona, he would have less ground to cover. And who says you surround him with those? What part of we need a midfield revamp you missed? You need atleast 1 more, and preferably 2 more. So get someone like Aouar/Gravenberch with Dybala money and try to get De Paul with loan, bonuses, youngsters going there way, you know, classic Juve type move. And then you have something. Rabiot and Ramsey will almost definitely leave, maybe Bentancur as well. Doubt very much that they are here next season.
I agree with that actually, which is why I said we need to save money for those positions. We need to land a ace there, two actually, since we have no one that knows how to play in the final 3rd, except always injured Ramsey. So those should be our top priorities, which also means you need to fix other areas with limited resources, hence these swap deals. We just need to do them the right way instead of amortizing a bum like Arthur on 20M a year and giving him 5M net on a 5 year contract.