The transfer seems to signal the distrust in our youth, low confidence regarding a Bernardo extension & injury/health concerns for KDB in the future. If his RC is £85m next year then our max. bid shouldn`t be higher. In two weeks he will be 26 years. In Europe he has played at Milan, Lyon & WH.
For me his upsides are creativity & technical/passing skills, positive vibes for the dressing room, some marketing aspects & perhaps relative low wages. The downsides would be the fee compared to the needs of the squad & the actual performance from the player in his previous clubs (Txiki,Omar,Ferran care about fees/net spend) & the reduced game time/opportunities for our own young talents. If McAtee, Palmer, Perrone, Gomez, Bobb wants to get game time then they should look for somewhere else.
All in all i´m kinda indifferent but the KP/Lavia trade-off still bugs me. After all the trophies/success (especially CL,Treble/3peat) I would hoped we would trust our young talents a little bit more & not winning the PL/CL (i still think our current squad+pacey winger are capable of it) would not be the end of the world but i know that the majority of the fans & the important guys at the club think different.