€15m for a player with a year left on his contract is not exactly a brainy move, it's a gamble that Real Madrid can afford. We have nothing like their budget, or should I say, debt allowance.
Well hopefully this move will affect CSKA's asking price, because we were rumored to have negotiated them from 18M down to 15M for Krasic... who has 1 season left on his deal.
My personal opinion on the Ozil transfer is that it's a very, very smart piece of business. The player is excellent, and I think he's going to be ridiculously good in a couple of years.
Not to mention that he clearly has enough promise/ability/cache to be sold in the even that he flops at Madrid... and that sale would easily recap the majority of the money laid out on his transfer, if not all of it.
The rich get richer... fantastic move by Madrid, those cocksuckers.