lol, says the guy who cherry picked stats to make Bentancur look like our best midfielder.
I didn't cherry-pick anything. Feel free to add the stats I didn't use which are relevant for a midfielder.
I used: average number of passes per 90 minutes, passing %, distance covered, assists, goals, tackles, interceptions, crosses, blocks, dribblings. How is that cherry-picking? Which other stats are relevant for a midfielder? Won aerials; how many times per game is the midfielder dispossessed; key passes per game; bad control of the ball per match?
I didn't think they are so relevant, but ok, here they are:
Won aerials:
Rabiot and McKennie 1.1
Bentancur 1
Ramsey 0.5
Arthur 0.2
Dispossessed per match:
Ramsey, Rabiot and Arthur 0.4
Bentancur 0.5
McKennie 0.6
Key passes per match:
Ramsey 1.6
McKennie 1.1
Arthur 0.9
Bentancur 0.8
Rabiot 0.4
Bad control of the ball per match:
Arthur 0.8
Bentancur 1
Rabiot 1.2
McKennie 1.3
Ramsey 1.5
So if you think Juventus will pay too much for McKennie based on the agreed upon option, what do you brilliant statisticians think is a fair price?
It's the market that sets the price.
I don't think we're overpaying for McKennie. 4.5m for the loan, 18.5m to buy him and additional 7m upon achievement of further sportive performance objectives. That's a minimum of 23m euro and a maximum of 30m euro. Sounds fair. I don't expect him to become a world-beater and the prices might fall due to Covid-19, so we might not make a nice profit if we sell him eventually, but I don't think we'll lose money if we decide to let him go in the future. I see the ~30m euro as a fair price.