I like Rakitic but in not many aspects can he be compared with Marchisio. You had compared him with Poli which was a good example but Marchisio is a class above Rakitic. Mourinho rates Marchisio, many coaches rate him yet some here don't rate him at all, I find that odd at the very least.
Marchisio is definitly worth a pricetag of of +15M.
If we think that an offer of 20m eur for Marchisio must be accepted, it doesn't mean that we don't rate him at all, Gian.
If an offer of 8-10m eur comes for Marchisio, everyone will be against it, and rightfully so. But imo, there is a good amount of players who play in Marchisio's position and of similar quality and their realistic price is between 10-13m eur. Of course, it's my personal opinion, but only in Italy I see players like Inler or Thiago Motta who offer similar qualities and their realistic price is imo 10-13m eur. If you check England, France, Spain, Germany, I'm sure there are many more players of similar caliber.
Getting 20m eur for these players is almost twice their real value.
Another thing is that these kind of players don't really reach sky high prices like the attackers for example do. They are useful players, very useful, but they rarely reach +15m eur on the market, simply because there is too many of them. Only the very best DMs go higher than 15m eur.
I think Lass could offer just as much, if not more, than Marchisio and he can be bought for half of the reportedly offered 18-20m. That could leave us a nice amount for a fullback. Moggi never hesitated to sell a player if an offer higher than the evaluation arrived and if this rumor is true, our board should take example from their predecessor.
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