Barella and Calhanoglu, top paid mids outside of Juve, are on 5m. I see 0 reasons to offer more to SMS, 5m already is probably more than Lazio will ever give him.
Khedira contract extension was a disaster, it shouldnt be our baseline
Barella and Calla are younger and could still potentially leave for a PL club offering them a Tonali level of salary.
Milinkovic being 29 is on his last career contract. At least a big paycheck one.
And unless you're a Modric lvl of player no big clubs out there gonna buy a 30+ midfielder instead of investing money on a younger prospect.
If it wasn't for the lower price of 30-35m I'd say this might be another huge mistake a la Higuain. 94m for a soon to be 30yrs old striker.
In fact how did it end? 1year and half good. Loaned for another 1year and half.
closed the contract taking a 18m loss rather than keeping his wages.
But still gotta say that was manly our fault. We wanted to sell Dybala but we couldn't and we couldn't keep both Higuain and Dybala with Ronaldo massive wages.
Higuain own personal problem was him getting chubby which isn't a good thing for an athlete.