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Not sure if we can sell Esposito and/or Satriano, but it's possible if we find 10m offers for each of them. Pinamonti for 20m is hand wrapped to Monza or whomever else wants him. There's some interest but whether we reach a 20m valuation remains to be seen. Ideally we should loan both kids away and eventually use them in the side when they mature, but we know we don't work that way.
Sensi is also leaving for sure, but again there's a valuation issue. Maybe he can only leave with a loan + option deal (to Monza for example) which gets activated if they stay up. But I don't think it's easy to get 14-15m for him at this stage, even if it sounds like a steal if he's healthy (which sounds like a joke).
De Vrij will only leave if a serious team is after him. He's not going to Newcastle to be one the first pieces of an ambitious side, though I believe they're a lock for Top 6 if they keep Bruno Guimaraes, get De Vrij and sign 2-3 other good players. He wants to go to a top team and has no necessity to leave. From Spain, I think he'd fit Atletico well but they're not interested at the moment.
Ideally we should have been able to get 40m for him but we helped destroyed his value and his mentality/reaction didn't help either, so maybe 20m at best now. He still has 3-4 years to offer at a high level.
On Dumfries, there's been interest for a while but the extent needs to be understood. Are we really getting a 40m offer? I was thinking more like 30m, but if we can get 40m then he has to go as much as I like the guy. He can improve, but we cannot get 40m from anyone else that's not irreplaceable.
Dimarco could leave if we receive a good enough offer of 20+. I'd like to keep him if possible but he definitely gets sacrificed if it becomes a necessity to sell someone to avoid selling a core player (by core I hope we all understand: Skriniar, Barella, Bastoni, Lautaro and Brozovic)
Radu will leave for sure but he has the Bologna taint now. Without that, I'd guarantee a 5m transfer, but now I'm not so sure. Maybe loan + option is the best we can find and 3m next season gives us the same 1m capital gains we'd get with 5m now.
Gagliardini could also leave if we receive a good offer (~15m I suppose) but we'll need to get a replacement. I'd like to give Agoume a chance, but he's probably going to be devoured for capital gains.
We can make some plusvalenza from Agoume as I mentioned, there's also Vanheusden, Salcedo, Pirola... and the headaches of Dalbert and Lazaro who need to be offloaded this summer!
Not sure if Vanheusden will remain with the first team, there's a higher chance we try to keep Ranocchia for a year imo.
As for Lukaku, we should explore other options. There's no point. We got our pay day, no need to retake a risk here. There are no guarantees that he'll be good here. I'd much rather give Cavani a 1 year deal (5m net?) or give Belotti a chance (3.5m net?). It would cost around 1/4 of what is demanded with Lukaku. We could even opt to go for Luis Muriel who's on an expiring deal.
Bringing Lukaku does not guarantee that Dzeko or Correa will be the ones sacrificed. It probably means that one of Barella, Skriniar or Bastoni gets sacrificed.
Dzeko would be almost impossible to offload. He wants that Scudetto badly and really has no incentive to leave. He can still be useful as long as we don't depend on him, because he's shown he cannot be depended upon.
With Correa it becomes tricky as there's interest but I don't think there's enough to warrant a bid we'd consider. Would it make sense to loan him out? That'd depends on whether or not we sign someone else after Dybala and if there's an easy trigger option.
The situation isn't so dire if we manage to offload the players we don't need and the two Dutch NT players which could give us 50m plusvalenza if rumours are true (Dumfries at 40m gives us ~30m and De Vrij at 20m gives us around ~20m as well).
Selling Pinamonti, Sensi, Pirola, Di Gregorio, Radu, Dalbert, Lazaro, Salcedo, Esposito, Satriano and Agoume on top of that could give us up to 150m in transfer funds (some of which would be used in incoming player exchanges) and 70-100m in plusvalenza, without affecting that many roster spots.