Germany isn't the warmest place for latin blood to enjoy life fully...obviously in purely football terms, BM have a massively greater pull, presently, and I wouldn't cry if we didn't get the little devil..but we do still have some allure, as a club, as well as the city and country where we are situated, as a team with one of the most succesful histories of any club. Some allure...fading year by year.
If I am right in recalling to mind marotta mentioning that Bastos may be a problem unless he gets a french passport, then surely that confirms that Marotta has already lined up a non-eu signing who is more important and higher quality an acquisition than Bastos????? so which non-eu could that be??? Sanchez can't be that answer because he has already been registered in Italy, so he wouldn't count as our non-eu signing (is this correct?)...how about the appelt brothers?? but they are getting european passports I assume...so who can it be?
As for atletico wanting rid of tiago...i think they are just playing a game with us. Perhaps have an agreement with tiago, who will refuse other offers, his agent will suggest another year loan, or to come back to juve to try his hardest to earn a starting spot. Its not in atletico's interest to make an offer for a player they definitely have found useful, but whose parent club doesn't want in any way, and are desperate to offload him...