Man, just how rich the Italian teams were back then. In the same summer we bought a player for almost 50m eur, we bought two other players for +35m eur each, and a fourth player (Salas) for +20m eur. On top of it, we paid +15m eur for freakin Cristian Zenoni.
Nowdays, even those 15m we paid for Zenoni are considered big money.