If it was a genuine option to buy then Cardoso would have has to agree to it including salary etc. If it wasn't that then if exercised it might give us the difference between the cash Betis get and €25m so Atletico would have to negotiate with us to sign him.Can't be helped if the player doesn't want to join us. Can't force him. All that means is that Betis couldn't sell him to anyone whose bid we matched.
Just a garbage nonsense clause that made giving Lo Celso away for free seem like slightly less of an admission of failure than it was.
Modern day equivalent of receiving Frazer Campbell on loan as part of the Berbatov deal.
