4-Denis deal is still good for price
-You keep mentioning what we paid for City,may I dare to ask why? because that was already paid in 2013,if we passed on getting him back we don't get our money back
And Denis was a starter (some would add was one of the team starts too) in the team that finished top 4 in Liga & Europa League,many teams like Napoli,City itself & Arsenal were rumored to have interest in him.
I am mentioning what we paid to City because if Denis is our guy, we should count all the money which we had spent on him to actually have him here now.
For example:
1. if you buy a player XX from let's say Milan for 10 Millions
2. and then you loan him or sell with a buyback option
Let's say that you sell him for 5M, with a buyback option 10M
Then, if you buy him back one day, his price is not only 5M (from this last transaction), but actually 10M paid to Milan 2 years ago and 5M paid this summer to the 2nd club for a buyback
So, yes, a buyback for Denis was only 3,5M or whatever price.
But what we invested to actually have Denis here today is:
1. a fee paid to City to get him here
2. a 2nd fee paid in his 2nd transaction last summer from Villareal. So, we have actually paid him twice.
3. add to this add ons (800,000 Euros for each 10 matches played)
So, after this season it will be 30+ matches and 2,4M paid this season as additional fees for Denis.
Since he will stay at least one more season to test him properly under a new coach, he will probably get 30 matches in the next season also, which wil be another 2,4M in additional fees.
That will be 10-ish M for him in total to City, Villarealy and for additional fees to City.
10M for another squad player, not too much better than Rafinha, Roberto, and probably Samper and Alena.
Ok, we will probably get some money back from his sale.
But we will do the same with Gomes, so Gomes also isn't wasted 40M as people say.
Further, someone may reply: if Denis played 30 matches this season, then he was a success.
I don't agree. He played in 30 matches, but a lot of times as a sub in the last 20 minuts. Plus, except in 3-4 matches, he was poor to average in majority of matches with zero impact/influence on anything.
So, a fact that he played 30 matches in my eyes isn't a sign that he was a success, but a sign that Lucho just rotated all players all the time.
Denis is playing less and less lately and it seems that he is the last pick among Iniesta, Raki, Gomes, Arda and Rafinha.
Further, even Paco played 16 matches and offered absolutely nothing, and he will probably reach 20+ matches till the end of a season.
So, a number of matches played don't need to suggest anything.
So, if you ae looking from a financial aspect:
= transfer of Denis wasn't that bad since we paid around 10M, and we will recover some (or all) money back in a summer of 2018 probably
From Barca's point of view in terms of getting a valuable player:
= we got absolutely nothing, except a squad player and 2 years lost on testing him. We will now have to buy new Cms instead of Gomes and Denis and then test them AGAIN for 1-2 season to see whether they are good enough for us.
While Real, for example, has a fully functional team currently without a need for experiments, tests and new players, like us.
Real and Barca switched positions.
Real is a stable club currently and we have no idea where are we currently and where we should go in the future, nor with which coach, which players and which system.
In terms of poor transfers financially, deals of Arda, Paco (and imo Digne) are way worse and way too expensive.
In terms of actually improving our squad, majority of Barca's transfers in the last 2 seasons are horrible (Arda, Vidal, Cilless, Gomes, Denis, Paco, Digne). I know that those are not all transfers made by Robert.
Umtiti is the only one (1 out 8) where the board has actually improved our team.
If you'll or someone else reply: we needed only subs. Well, we didn't need only subs.
We needed some subs and some starters since our current team is dying.
Board tried to a find a starter both in Arda (probably instead of Raki), Vidal, Gomes, Denis and Umtiti.
They succeeded only with Umtiti.