His situation complicates things for the summer mercato.
He's not our player and we need some 15-20 million to buy him. If he meets certain given sportive objectives we are actually obligated to buy him.
The price is fair, but in a situation where we're desperate for at least two 50m euro each midfielders, it complicates things. We now actually need 115-120M euro to get 2 new midfielders+buy McKennie. This means that we need to sell two of ours. Arthur's price was pumped up when we bought him which makes him a guarantee to stay. Bentancur's price won't even reach 30M, and half of that will go to Boca, which means that in theory we have to sell Bentancur to buy McKennie. I don't think we'll do it. We will probably try to get rid of Ramsey and Rabiot. That's... how much... 50M if we're lucky to find a buyer, especially for Ramsey? We are still some 65-70M short.
Or we don't buy McKennie, we sell Rabiot for some 35-40, and we buy two midfielders for 100M. We are 60-65M short. Not much different.
Fuck this, we're in a terrible situation that will require at least two summers to make it better. Last summer was a disaster when we tried to fix our midfield with Arthur and McKennie. Who guarantees that we'll do better this summer?
Prepare for another bad season next year, boys.