Mediocre? How you figure?
Unless you're just stat-watching here. Have you watched Sassuolo play? Berardi has become more complete than he was last year. He's become more involved in the movement of the offense and has developed better instincts at feeding the striker, in his case Zaza. You can tell that just based off his overall rating this year on whoscored, 7.22 this year compared to 7.12 last year. Sure, his numbers aren't last year's but he hasn't had a Milan game like he did last year. His goals scored this year are less hattricks (only two matches with 2 goals this year) and more spread out, more consistent. He's just got the dubious honor of not being South American

and that's why nobody's talking about him. And he already own him so the desire to sign him is like "eh". Yesterday's news... moving on...
NOT SCORING HAT-TRICKS ANYMORE! SELL!