First, I didn't give any false Info. Anybody knows Canna transfer details, I think. 10m for Canna, 4 yeas ago, was nothing in compare to the price we wanna pay for this Stankovic today.
You're wrong again.
From 2000 until 2002 the transfer market went crazy. Teams were paying X3 times the fair price of the players.
That's the period when all the transfer records were broken. Crespo was sold for 50m eur, Zidane for almost 70m, Rio Ferdinand 45m, Mendieta 43m, Veron for 37m, Buffon, Nedved, Thuram, Rui Costa for +30/40m. Even one Nakata was sold to Parma for 27m euro.
But then the market colapsed. Some teams went bankrupt while the bigger teams stopped paying crazy ammounts.
We bought Cannavaro in 2004. The transfer market was normal again in 2004. Actually, there is absolutely no difference in market prices from 2004 and 2008.
Cannavaro was a 31 yo defender who had great seasons in Parma but he was a flop in Inter. For two years he's been really bad and everyone thought he's washed up and it was normal to watch him as an ex-player.
What Juve payed for Cannavaro back then wasn't a steal. We payed his fair price. I read some old posts where Inter fans were actually pleased they got rid of the flop and even earned money and a back up keeper.
For a 31 yo ddefender who had 2 bad seasons 10m eur+Carini was rather expensive.
Moggi took the risk and he won at the end. But only because Canna played great for Juve we think that it was the steal of the century. At the time when we bought Cannavaro it didn't look like a steal at all.
Stankovic is a year younger than Canna was in 2004 and unlike Cannavaro who had 2 bad seasons behind him when we bought him, Stankovic has only 1 bad season.
Actually, the Cannavaro situation can be compared to Zambrotta's situation now.
Zambrotta is 31, he was great in the past and he had 2 very bad season with Barcelona after that.
If Milan payed 10m eur+player to buy Zambro from Barca, would you think that it was a steal and a great deal ?
If he plays great for Milan then you'll think so, but atm i'm sure you don't see it as a steal of the century.