Just realized two things...
1. This quote: “Juve deserve a few more points than they have got in the table, but Milan will win the championship" could actually be interpreted as Giovinco criticizing some of the officiating that our club's management was so vocally displeased with. He's basically using a company line!
2. Somewhere buried in this thread, I'm pretty sure there's a quote where I said that loaning the player makes some sense, so he can recover his confidence - although I was pretty pissed at GM because of the small co-own fee. However, if we buy Giovinco's half back for say 7M (his market value is probably between 14-16M, give or take?), we'll have paid Parma 3.5M to get our own much improved player back. Which, off hand, isn't actually completely terrible, given the logistics. Then, if you consider that we saved what is probably around 3M in wages after taxes... rather than having a classic Juve situation from the last few years, where we've got guys who aren't playing making tons of money to ride the pine...
From a certain vantage, one could say that we spent a bit more than 500k to develop someone who could become a very useful asset. Those figures are extremely rough, but even if you add a few million to that total, not exactly terrible.
So how's that for selective logic?