I'm well aware of how assets are written down in financial reporting and in fact deal with the finance aspect of football for a living, but thank you for the bizarrely condescending attempt at a lesson. I was merely saying his transfer fee was a relative pittance for a player of his experience and calibre. The notion that Bayern ripped us off or that he's a flop is just not true.
I would not have to explain it to you if you'd actually shown your knowledge in the post. If you have a good idea how player's are accounted then you should not base your conclusions of whether we paid pittance or not, whether Bayern ripped us of or not on a transfer fee. That's just wrong, that's not how things work. And you should know better.
Now if we calculate the things properly i think it's a pretty decent theory that Munich did rip us of and we massively overpaid for Schweinsteiger. He was on a last year, with a huge salary with fitness and injury concerns, also as i am sure you are aware, but i will point it for other's users benefit, he was not on Munich's books in terms of financial asset, since he was homegrown, his original cost was zero. So any money Munich does make on his transfer is pure profit. Now we sold RVP for twice as little, player with same problems, age etc. And we sold him at a book value, so with zero profit, maybe even a loss if we consider his singing fees and bonuses, i don't know whether we paid those. Looks like we did partially because loss of 7m (our player trading loss for the summer of 2015) is too much for Di Maria's transfer alone. Anyway the 3-4m pounds is much fairer price. 6-7 is over-payment definitely. That's my opinion based on other similar transfers. But that's concerning whether Bayern ripped us off or not. As you can see, at the very least it's a 50-50. There could be a case for saying that Munich got themselves a great deal.
But whether he was a big investment and a major flop or not, there can be little discussion there. And saying that 7m transfer fee proves that he was not a flop is a very simplistic and inaccurate thing to say, especially for someone who deals with financial side of running things. Because his salary alone, even if we don't buy the story that it is over 200k a week, it still obviously huge, makes Schweinsteiger a rather expensive players for our accounts.