Mandragora is actually a 20 yrs national team player. compared to we paid 7.5M for Favilli, 20M for mandragora is a reasonable price.
Not in Italy, I don't think so..
But the thing is not the price itself. It's the very low recompra price.
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I say it's fishy because it will come divulged (I think) as a sale with the right (not obligation) to buy back - like Juve could decide in 2 yrs if we get the player back or not. That was really Morata's case, and that's more favourable to Madrid.
But in reality, it will be a sale with the obligation to buyback. Or, one way or another, this money is going back to Udinese.
I say this because of 2 reasons:
1) A sale with the obligation to buy back, on paper, would mean it's also an obligation - that would go to the books. On the other hand, if you put on paper it's a right, you get to put in the books only the right to receive 20M - improving it; the obligation will have to be inserted only in 2 yrs. But despite that, it actually already exists. It's just under the table.
2) To Udinese it makes absolutely no sense at all to spend 20M (huge amount for them), only to receive 24M in 2 yrs, if the guy breaks out. If he fails, he stays. I mean, the downside is too big for them, it doesn't make sense from their point of view.