I don't think it's quite the case, I think other clubs will follow similar suits with a wage cap to help stabilise club finances in these uncertain times and with that players can no longer expect to make the same demands, just as clubs can't with transfer fees, player value and wages will feel the effects of this pandemic.
Hindsight is a wonderful thing, cant be certain that if tonali went to inter he'd enjoy the same success as verratti. We have to also understand that cellino is a nut job and I'm pretty certain he will try and screw us out of a good deal for himself hence this crap about Barca offering 65 mill plus 2 players valued at 15 mill combined he quoted earlier today, a club that is so desperate for money can somehow flaunt 65+ mill for a kid that's played 1 season in the top flight? yeah smells like BS. Verratti went for what? 25-30 mill?
Remember Pellegri when he went to monaco? back then we were like omfg we made the same mistake alla verratti, where is he now?
I was never a pessimist nor an optimist, just a realist who is trying to put things in perspective even if most disagree with my points, unfortunately under marotta it made it look pessimistic because he made some quite unforgivable moves like selling Vidal and his replacements. Love him or hate him I like a number of the moves from paratici, I didn't think we'd get both demiral and De Ligt last summer, I was accepting the fact that it would be either one or the other, it's a statement of intent that he wants to build a team for the future. Cancelo had to go regardless, both financially and technically he had to go, unfortunately we are stuck with danilo for it but cancelo was a expendable player, someone i never really liked even at valencia I stated I wanted ricardo pereira over him, and to be honest so far I'd say Pereira is still the better player by a million miles.
Unfortunately it won't take 1 transfer window or even 3, it's a gradual process but I trust him more than I ever did with marotta and his short term band aids like hernanes, ashley young, rincon, victor Moses, Sanchez etc... to do that