Just for clearing it up, we didn't have to match PSG's offer in order to get Verratti. We could have got him before they came into play.
Marotta completed the deal, but Raiola fucked it up because it involved Bouy and he refused to let his player get co-owned by Empoli.
Then Pescara wanted some more compensation, and Marotta spent weeks lowballing them for 1/1.5M.
And just then PSG came calling.
So yep, Marotta pretty much lost the guy.
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But to be fair to him, Verratti was just a promise that time, he is a very diminutive player, and it wasn't clear if he could become that good.
And all other Italian teams lost the kid.
But the fact remains that Marotta had him at this hands and let him scape through his fingers.
Marotta completed the deal, but Raiola fucked it up because it involved Bouy and he refused to let his player get co-owned by Empoli.
Then Pescara wanted some more compensation, and Marotta spent weeks lowballing them for 1/1.5M.
And just then PSG came calling.
So yep, Marotta pretty much lost the guy.
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But to be fair to him, Verratti was just a promise that time, he is a very diminutive player, and it wasn't clear if he could become that good.
And all other Italian teams lost the kid.
But the fact remains that Marotta had him at this hands and let him scape through his fingers.
