After reading the purported rumor that Inter has to make close to 100m in sales this summer, how in the hell does paying Dybala make sense.
As far as I understand it, the €100m or €60m, or whatever the fuck it is, is to pay for running costs over the course of the season such as salaries.
While we are definitely looking to reduce our wage bill, we can actually afford to pay some high salaries. We're already paying Brozovic and Lautaro €6m each, not to mention Vidal and Sanchez a respective €6.5m and €7.5m
Our main problem seems to be liquidity. We can continue to pay ongoing costs (which are to be largely self-financed) but we seem loathe to pay any real transfer fee.
You can argue that signing Dybala on big wages adds to the wage bill and therefore if we didn't sign him, we wouldn't have to sell a player to fund our wage budget. It's partly true, but we need to sell
someone to fund the wage retainer regardless. Dybala's wages, though significant, would only be an incremental increase to the weekly expenditure and day-to-day running costs the club incurs.
We've extended some of our key players with increased pay and we need to sign replacements for outgoing players. Even if we offload the wages of Vidal, Alexis, Sensi, Kolarov, Vecino etc., the overall decrease in wage spending will not be enough to significantly help our issues. We need to gradually trim the wage bill and be really efficient with our tight budget. Can't have these shitters whose wages are not proportionate to their contribution.
That's my main issue with Dybala. I fear given his injury record that he will join the list of highly paid low contributors.