Inter director Piero Ausilio has defended the sale of Federico Bonazzoli to Sampdoria.
Bonazzoli, 17, has been one of the protagonists in Inter Primavera’s Viareggio Cup success, making his transfer to Sampdoria appear like a blunder to fans.
Despite this Ausilio, who oversaw the transfer, has defended his line of action.
“Bonazzoli at that kind of money was an excellent opportunity,” he told LaGiovaneItalia.net.
“You must read between the lines. In Inter’s new deals there is something like a gentleman’s agreement with the clubs that share the ownerships of our boys like Crisetig, Longo, Benassi and Bardi.”
“We sent them to clubs that would bring out the best in them and let them develop. But we have a purchase clause on all of them.”
“We learned from our mistakes and we know that in Italy it isn’t easy to develop as a footballer in the right way.”
“I don’t think we’ll have any regrets over Bonazzoli. Aside from the excellent relationship we already have with Sampdoria, we have also included a purchase clause in the deal.”
“Our coach Mancini always allowed for the debut of our youth players. Balotelli, Biabiany and Bonucci for example all started under him.”
“Now we have Dimarco and Baldini in the Europa League squad.”
Wish the best for bonazzoli at samp… and hope he’ll come back to us even more of a beast
Look at Santon. In one way or another it’s the same principles.
but without buying clause, I guess.
his buy back back price just 9 M euro after 2 year
we sell him 5 M euro,,,
i’ts smart move by ausilio
it’s like we pay sampdoria 4M to train our youngster
exactly.
In Ausilio we TRUST !
Message from Aussilio
I don’t understand, it is really clear that Inter have a buy back clause in Bonazolli case. Also, Ausilio already explain all the Inter’s policy on transfer market. If there are fans who protest or angry with the decision to sell Bonazolli, maybe they didn’t read it, can’t read it, or just simply impulsive behavior. Its like a joke for me. 😐
Sorry guys, i think you didn’t understand the system…
Here the explanation, buy back clause after 2 or 3 years is common in football but the way it goes not as simple as that… I give you example:
Let say you’re Sampdoria and I am Inter. I sell my player to you for 5mil and add buyback clause 9mil after 2 years (2015-2017). Then you got an big offer (let say also 8.5mil) for the players you bought from me on 2016 and you want to make a transfer, you make a call to me since we have buy back clause, but at the moment i don’t wat to activate the clause since i don’t need the player due to certain reason (let say i still have no spot for him on my squad). Since i am confirm to not activate the clause, then you transfer the players go to his new club by full payment and basicaly when the deal done, our buyback clause would be invalid since he is now fully owned by his new parent club.
If i want to buy him again in the future with his new parent club, the number is already change…
I knew about it. It is more or less like Barcelona deal with Arsenal on Fabregas. Sure, it is depends on whether Inter want to active the clause or not. Ausilio already explain about it in his interview post January transfer period. Inter will buy back Bonazolli if he develop like what Inter expected, cause we have the clause about it.
And sampdoria not sell him before the date time… But i am really sure they can’t stand for big offer and Inter wouldn’t buy him in near future… At 2017 Bonazzolli stil 19yo, 9mil for 19yo sounds unlikely…
if inter doesn’t activated the buy back clause in 2017,
it means he is not good enough for our squad.
2 years its enough to prove his quality.
but let say he is success in sampdoria, of course we gonna buy him back.
its only 9 million, we are not that poor.
That’s what I am trying to say. Totally agree..
Hmm.. I am trying to understand what u trying to say. Are u saying, that if the player play really well next season then there is an big offer comes at the end of 2016, then are Sampdoria have legitimate to sell him? Whether Inter have a buy clause that active at 2017.
Is that what u mean? I don’t know the detail, but it seems that Ausilio already think about that. I don’t know..
of course Ausilio has already think about that probability. if they sell Bonazzoli, 40% of the sales will enter our pocket.
well I think you can do the math and see whether it’s a good/bad deal after all.
there are reasons why people consider Ausilio as one of the best sporting directors out there. he is the real think, not just ‘sporting director wannabe’ fans who think that they know better deals only because they done well in a simulation game, LOL
I do agree with you. 🙂
Well, that’s a risk we have to take. Our position in the league and current team is not strong enough to risk fielding a primevera player on a regular basis. There’s no point of keeping the player and let them play less than a game per month and loan them out to a different team each year is not helping them to progress either. People keep thinking about the mistake that we made before, but It is a little bit different now. Our squad contains mainly experienced player for the past 10 years, where as we have a lot of young player in the first team now, Kovacic, Icardi and Juan are all very young, but they r ready for the first team. We r trying to build a team with a lot of young players, but we can’t field every young player that has a talent, they have to be ready and be able to make an impact in the first team. Bona is not yet ready, the perfect situation is he develop into a player ready for first team in 2 or 3 years, then we buy him back. I think that’s the best solution we can offer right now.
The problem is…
That guy should have tough balls to refuse 5mil for 17yo boy… In economic aspect, this deal is understandable, but if i were Ausilio and i have to make decission, i’ll prefer to offload our dead woods 2mil for each one… And if i have to make the ugliest way, i’ll sell them 1mil for each one… If the point is making 5mil money…
Then we lack the quantity of the players. I think the transfer policy by Ausilio is already good. For instance, we bought M’Villa and Osvaldo only based on loan. And they are not good nor make a problem, then we offload them.
We bought a great young lads on Shaqiri. In the same time, we just loan podolski. In case Podolski failed to shine, then we don’t have to buy him.
Everyone wanted offload our dead load. Wishes are good. Ausilio, as well as our management are not stupid. It is just not as easy as sell out a young prospect. Even others are happy to buy jonno, kuzmanovic etc for 2m, can they afford their salary? if you are jonno, kuzma, will you cut your salary in half to play for a small club? especially when you truned 30+, you know you are about to retire, why you should accept a pay cut and pack everything you have to a small club?
Agree.. 🙂
you forgot one thing.
if sampdoria want to sell the player, 40% of the sale will come to INTER.
that mean 8.5M – 40% = 5.1M.
samp bought the player for 5M.
if there is someone out there willing to buy 18y.o kid for 8.5M, the kid must be something special.
if the kid is special, sampdoria wouldn’t be stupid enough to just make 100k profit out of 5M in one year.
they only have two choice that would benefits them.
first, sell back Bonazzoli to INTER for 9M clause and get 4M profit.
or, sell to other team who willing to pay big load of money which need at least 15M to match up profit if they sell to INTER.
but then again, IF there is someone out there want to buy 18-19y.o kid player for 15M, the kid must be VERY special (we bought Kovacic, which is HIGHLY REGARDED AS HOT PROSPECT for LESS than that).
and if INTER can redeem that kind of player for only 9M, wouldn’t you think INTER will snap him back? LOL