Messi983
Senior Member
He's not coming for dirt cheap. He's just been on a very expensive loan basically. We offloaded him as part of the Raki deal, we have paid his wages and now we buy him back. He will earn more than at Sevilla and Villarreal but we shouldnt go overboard. We struggle immensely to sell our players already.
Of course he is. 3M are not much in todays world for a club like Barça.
His loan to Sevilla was basically seen as 7M transfer (Sevilla rated Rakitic at 25M and we only pay 18M for him so Denis was difference between that). Sevilla could buy him for 6M after loan expired and we had 9M buyback. So again, if we do some math, we could buy him back for basically 3M net (which we would last summer if not for transfer ban), the same amount we can buy him now from Villarreal, who paid around 4M last season to Sevilla, if I remember correctly.
About wages: if I remember correctly we only pay half of his wages during his loan at Sevilla and we didn't pay anything last season because Villarreal bought him and he was 100% their player.