The deal still seems a bit bizarre. If you want to bring the player back and develop him, why would you grant a purchase option in the first place, even if it is so small.
Assuming Frisione takes the option, which she should and will do in any case given the circumstances as described in the article, then you actually have to pay 7.5 more or at least beat the competition to get him back.
Otherwise, if he goes to Milan next summer, for example, you will no longer have access to him.
In this respect, a very strange approach and, for me, not very productive.
I’m amazed at how few people here really understand the principle of buyback clauses. These are now repeatedly anchored in contracts in football (Isak had one at Sociedad, Kane has one, Emerson, at least as far as I remember, moved back to Barca through one of these…)
In 99% of cases (there are also exceptions like Kane), these serve to ensure that a club can pass on a talented player who currently has no place in the club and who may not necessarily be expected to make the jump to the professionals, but still If he develops very well at his new club, he will be able to sign him for possibly little money. In principle, it’s a loan where the player doesn’t have to come back if you don’t need him.
The advantage for the receiving club: You won’t lose the player for free after one or two years
The advantage for the selling club: You can sign a player for possibly well below market value.
In the example of Ibrahimovic:
Assuming Frosinone pulls out the knockout, they will have a player in their squad for probably 4-5 years who will either help them in terms of sport or, if he makes a breakthrough, will leave for a decent sum.
From Bayern’s point of view, this can free up a squad spot, but if Ibrahimovic develops very well, sign him for a significantly lower amount than if they had to negotiate freely.
Of course, in this case you can say “they could have kept him straight away”, but you don’t know whether he could have developed so well at Bayern or under other circumstances (less certainty about his own future, for example) in Frosinone. This is and always will be a game of chance in football.
The principle of a KO and RKO should already be clear. However, various people rightly raise the question of whether (if the conditions are right) these are negotiated sensibly for a 17-year-old top talent.
First of all, there is the question of why one should even commit to a knockout for such a young player. If he were 3-4 years older and/or had already had moderately successful loan spells, things would of course be different, because then you could foresee that he probably won’t be able to make it to the first team so quickly. The fact that the RKO is almost 3 times the KO raises questions as to whether there might not have been better options for Bayern.
His market value was already rated high before the season at 1 million, so a lot was already expected of him (for the professional experience that he had virtually non-existent up to that point). For comparison, the currently highest market values in this area are in the 3rd league (especially top talents from our team and the 2nd Freiburg team).