Locatelli's story ended, finally.
The market transaction resulted in a two-year loan with mandatory redemption. As I said many times, IMO all valuations in modern soccer are too high, however I understand that the price is made by the market.
I agree that getting Locatelli with this formula is a bargain: he is a central midfielder, in perfect position in front of the defense.
Let's see how he behaves in a big team.
It was also a 2 year loan deal with purchase afterwards because they were trying to handle with FFP as well, it is going to be a bit of a problem in the long run, but it is not going to be that hard to handle in the future because they will be basically putting that down right now and that is going to be already accounted in 2 years when they are not in trouble at all. So, why do you really feel like it is going to be this smart to do something like this?
I feel like they are handling something that is quite easy to handle way too harshly, if they are putting him down for 2 years later, then they are covering for the next 2 years, and if something goes wrong then they are not going to be available to wiggle into some transfers they may want to. I would say that they should probably get players they can afford to, or not buy players with basically future debt.