Kroos, World champion, left bayern to Real for 25 million, but people are not shocked to pay 40 for a kid from series B who has only one year left on his contract. Ok.
Kroos had a release clause that was 25m, because Bayern were too stubborn to renegotiate his contract when he broke out as a top player.
The market decides the prices, and at the time of Kroos, top players were going for 30-40m, and superstars for 70-90m. Now if you are a highly promising top talent, you go for a minimum of 40-50m more or less, but many in the 60-80m region just for attracting interest from other top clubs (just look at Felix going for 126m just for showing some flashy talent in one year). We would be all day if we were to talk about the insane prices north of 90-100m current "established" players go for now.
So lets not pretend Kroos contract release clause and the financial transfers of 6 years ago is the same as now.
But I agree that the club should defenitely not be bullied into overpaying, I doubt any clubs will pay more then 50m for a young and raw Tonali in little relegated Brescia.
But defenitely need to get him still tho.
