Everybody is just overreacting a bit too much. Marrotta cannot be saying it's in the bag in the first week of august when he knows this negotiation is going to go down to the wire on three fronts, JoJo, RvP and Dzeko which are interlinked and will have a knock on effect. The same with Paxzini. The best thing to do at this time is keep your options open and see how the Market evolves. The last month has the most dynamic scenarios which is why he can't be knee jerking and making counteroffers everywhere. It's very clear that we know who we want are after and those targets don't change overnight. If Delle Valle was so serious about keeping JoJo, how come he didn't squash reports at the first instance of them building up? Yes, that's right, because he's playing himself into the game. He chose to very conveniently take his player off the market when our interest was documented to be at it's peak. He knows we are interested and he's choosing to squeeze every penny out of us for his golden goose. I'd take all these statements with a pinch of salt as should all of us. Just because Beppe or DV said something, it counts for nothing when we aren't even in August. If JoJo really wasn't on the market, he'd have been taken off like Higuain was, at the first instance of any interest. Either way, I believe we are most genuinely in for RvP followed by JoJo and Dzeko.
