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Surely with FFP sanctions looming you make the deals that are available when they are available. You don't wait for Betis to come in. And if we were interested, or any other PL team, PSG would know that they are going to get the best price from the PL. And no, he wasn't seen as one of their 'best young talents'. He was shunted from position to position and only played 2452 minutes in all comps in 2017-18 for a team that routinely blow teams out.It could easily have been the case that they were looking for solutions to their FFP issues throughout the window and didn't want to let one of their best young talents go for a pittance until the deadline arrived and they had no alternative.
If PSG wanted to keep him or really thought he was going to be a star for them they wouldn't have added a buy option. If they thought he was going to show and be a 60M player the next year, money that would really help their FFP situation, it would have only been a loan which many teams would have taken.
I'm not being critical of 'missing out' on him in 2018. What I am saying is it doesn't reflect positively on us that he was available for a loan + 20M but we only bit at 60M a year later.There's plenty of good reason to be critical of our transfer setup but I'm not sure missing out on Lo Celso in summer 2018 is one of them.