Soulé also costs 24 + 6 in bonusses while for Gonzalez the rumours are 30 mil bonuses inclusive. So the 'even more money' isn't even very accurate if the rumours are true.
But still the important part is
for this year we get 22.4m for Soule transaction (
based on press release). We still dont even count the bonuses because it still not happen. And if we get Nico for loan + obligation, we will only write 5m loss. In other word for this year financial report for these counterpart transaction, while we do a little upgrading Soule to NIco Gonzalez we still getting 17.4m profit in our books. As for their ability
right now , we can point that Nico is more proven and above Soule
The loss from his amortize value for next season is next season problem. And for the salary part, I think it will be the same if we extend Soule, as if I check capology.com this is a verified Soule salary with AS Roma annual € 3,700,000 (Base) € 930,000 (Bonus) Total : € 4,630,000 per year (gross)
And this is Nico G salary with Fiorentina annual € 3,850,000 (Base) € 770,000 (Bonus)€ Total : 4,620,000 per year (gross) (capology verified). We probably will give him around the same amount total (without bonus) all total as base salary or slightly a little higher for the salary, like 5-6m per year (gross)
This is from the accounting point of view, because when we buy a player it means we buy an asset so we write his value when we buy him and we amortized the value based on how long the contract is with us. And when he extended we take his last book value for that year, then we divide it based on the number of years his contract will be extended from that point on that will be his new amortization value
If Giuntoli can add new coach like FM, he probably already choose PSG and buy Vlahovic from us for 300m