Ogbonna and Bonucci for €15m are both fair deals. That's the price you'd have to pay for a NT player in the mid 20s.
Isla showed a lot of potential when at Udinese but I agree €15m was a little over the top! You're judging these deals too soon - people claim Pereyra can be the next Di Maria. Mind you the difference (not only in quality) but also in price is around €40m. Di Maria is valued €55m - Pereyra for €15m can turn out to be a steal even if he's only reaching a third of Di Marias level.
Isla showed a lot of potential when at Udinese but I agree €15m was a little over the top! You're judging these deals too soon - people claim Pereyra can be the next Di Maria. Mind you the difference (not only in quality) but also in price is around €40m. Di Maria is valued €55m - Pereyra for €15m can turn out to be a steal even if he's only reaching a third of Di Marias level.
Ogbonna was massively overpayed. The guy had had a bad 2012-13 season. He hadn't show much so far. Even Cairo admitted that if it wasn't for Juventus we would never get that kind of money for him. 2013-14 Ogbonna was not very good. He was pretty irregular. Definitely didn't show to be worth 15M last season.
Isla I agree, he showed a lot of potential. Initially it should have been 18M for him (the first half payed was of 9M), but he was so bad that it went down to something like 15M (even though we only payed 4.5M for the 2nd half - actually it was a discount compensated on paying 1.5M for Pasquato).
He definitely IS NOT Di Maria. That's for sure. Not even close. He could be a good player, I hope he is. But I have watched him play like 6 or 7 times last year, and the guy doesn't stand out at all. You barely notice he is playing. He looks just a solid do-it-all kind of player. As of today, no way he is worth 15/17M. We sold Immobile for 8M for his half, valueing him 16M.
How can you value Immobile 16M and Pereyra 17M??? Does it make sense?
It's another huge gamble from Marotta, overpaying for a young player, like he did with Morata. He is paying the price the guy might be worth one day, not the price he is worth now.
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Ogbonna was 13M. Bonucci was like 4M cash and a bunch of garbage attached.
Ogbonna was 13M + 2M bonus.
