This transfer has the potential to ruin our season, it happens for all the wrong reasons.
If were broke we wouldnt waste 40mil on a nobody we dont really need.
We would focus on selling deadwood first.
defensive midfielders grow in trees in Italy, each and every year a new talent rises, without exception, we can literaly never ran out of such options, though hardly ever one escapes mediocrity. There are always new options, for them.
whats rare is trully creative attacking midfielders like verrati, they come once in a decade.
same goes with supportive strikers and finishers.
We should only Rush and make sacrifices for rare talents on those positions of rare talents.
There is always going to be a new Locatelli no need to ever Rush for such ones, unless he is a cheap opportunity target
and this one isnt!!
This year we need to rebuild, we need to replace starters on very problematic slots, like the RB.
The only slot in our lot without a valid alternative is the CAM, Ramsey is injury prone, Berna is serie B player, Kulu and Dybs have failed in that position, we dont have a valid option there and this player will be sacrificed because we will sacrifice our entire budget on Locatelli.
Manuel plays in Benta's and Rabbiot's place, he will replace one of those two, he isnt a difference maker, not the missing component that will make us competitive. He doesnt have the quality to build a CL team upon, for the coming years, either.
He only has an ephemeral value between the natiolist Italian fans.
Sassuolo is charging him for a price we could sign a real player, a real difference maker, or a rare talent.
He has no value outside Italy and no team in Italy or abroad would ever pay more than 22mil for him, or will pay once his promise is spent.
But they (Sass) know that we always act desperately and wasteful and they will just profit from this.
To maximise profits, they ask for a talent (Dragusin) bought with peanuts (5mil) and we will just fall for it, like we always do.
Two years from now, nobody will want or rate Pellegrini, just like nobody wants Bernaderschi and Pellegrini will find no other team to pay him the high salary we shall waste, like we always do and will be just one more over paid Mediocre DM we have, while we will be wasting yet another summer transfer budget on the next one hit wonder DM...