While it is a pain and annoying it should not be much of an issue this summer for us. First of i think the 40 mio are exaggerated i dont see how we are in the same situation as last year even though we have cl revenue and higher sponsorship revenue while not increasing the costs by much.
On top of that i m sure that atleast one of icardi or perisic will leave and both of them would basically solve the problem for us as icardis book value should be around 2 mio while perisics should be around 8 so making a 30 mio cap gain on any of them should not be a problem.
Furthermore bookvalues of Gabig (12-14), Candreva (10-12), Dalbert (12-14), j mario (16) imho are all at values where we should be able to sell them so that we make a couple of millions on some of them. If spallo stays we might as well ad gags (14) to the list who is not really getting playing time.
Note: bookvalues might be off by one or 2 mios since i m not sure of the timing of renewals and on the exact depreciation method we are using.
So i think when compared to last year we have a much easier task at hand. Ofcourse buyers might still mess with us since they know will have to sell before july 1st.