Messi983
Senior Member
Denis has rejected them and it's very unlikely they would ever pay 15M for Rafinha regardless of this swap. Those are all separate deals/negotiatons from a JC/Neto anyway so no need to include them here.
See, there is a limited market for Keylor who is a better GK and was actually a starter in multiple CL winning seasons for Madrid so I don't know how you can expect there would be a bigger market for JC.
There was no club willing to pay 20M for Jasper at the moment and it's very likely there would be no club prepared to pay that in this transfer window (don't forget EPL transfer window is already closing in around 5 weeks) at all if there won't be any movement from "big name" players like DDG or Donnaruma that would cause a domino effect.
Jasper has said in an interview last month that he wants to sign for a club from a top 5 league who will play the CL so his options were limited from the start.
- in La Liga Valencia was the only option.
- none of the top 4 clubs in the EPL needs a new GK. Some of them would probably need a better backup but wouldn't pay 20M for one and well, JC wants to be a starter so this is irrelevant.
- in BL Bayern still has Neuer and I don't see Dortmund, Leipzig or Bayer paying that much for a GK
- Juve seems to be happy with Szczesny (and they will probably get Buffon back as a backup if they'll sell Perrin), Napoli has just bought Italian U21 NT GK last season, Inter doesn't need a GK and Atalanta wouldn't pay that much
- in France only PSG would be able to pay 20M+ but they are looking for a younger/better GK or they will just keep Areola for another season
Now assuming that Benfica was really interested and would convince JC to join them. I doubt we would get more than 12M as it was reported.
So which club exactly do you believe would so easily pay 20M for him?
We don't know exactly what clauses are in Neto's contract but I don't believe we'll ever fully pay 35M for him because he'll be sold before then. So we'll make a few millions profit from a swap for people looking from this perspective. But as I've said before clubs like Barça don't care as much about cash flow or net spend money than they do about players amortisation costs. And here we made a 29M benefit selling Jasper. I have forgotten exactly how much Valencia benefited from this deal but we were not just helping them. As for Neto his cost for the club next season will be around 6,5M (26M initial transfer fee/ 4 year contract). Don't know if/how exactly bonuses are calculated here but if they are fully included then he will cost us around 8-9M instead.
