I know that.
It doesn’t get away from for the fact that he has only played a very little amount of football to be bought by Manchester United.
5 times he has made the match day squad this calendar year and he hasn’t played first team football in any of those games. Yes, he was in the squad for the first 3 games of the season but he didn’t come on and this was the first time he made the squad since January.
I’m not criticising Atalanta, nor am I criticising United for the purchase, just seems a bit odd and relatively high price for someone so inexperienced.
There is no way Atalanta have been shorted on this deal.
This year isn't a good marker point to highlight that someone has made a team since January, when the truth is football was disbanded for over 3 months globally, not to mention he was 17 breaking into a team overachieving in Europe, so rightly so they probably felt he'd develop better getting more game time at u19 level, as they were in the UYL (still 2 years above his age group) right up until the world broke.
I can understand why people who haven't heard of him would think it's not a fair price, but this is a good investment for me personally, in terms of his potential and consistent performances in higher age groups over the past 2 seasons.
Also, Atalanta lost the highest regarded player in their academy system, the year they planned on integrating him more into their first team this season, that's not a win.
To put it in perspective, imagine United lost Mason for 20 mill at the beginning of last season, would that be a win? Hypothetical but I'm sure you get my point. At least let him arrive and play shit before you start questioning the deal haha