Olivier Giroud Was A Serious Option For Roma – Monchi

Monchi has said that Mohamed Salah’s value doubled following the summer transfers of Neymar and Kylian Mbappe and that he could do nothing to prevent the Egyptian’s sale to Liverpool.

“In the end, with bonuses, we got €50 million for him, which is a figure I don’t feel is the best for him right now,” Monchi told Sky Sport Italia. “It’s still double what their first offer was, and at the time we needed to sell and he already had an agreement with Liverpool, so we couldn’t do anything else.

“Then there was the transfers of Neymar and Mbappe to Paris Saint-Germain, who had slightly altered the prices on the transfer market.”

We had started talking with Chelsea about Emerson and then they asked us about Edin,” Monchi said. “We told them to make an offer and we would consider it. Chelsea never offered what we were asking for, though, and Dzeko didn’t reach an agreement with them either.

“We were not 100 percent convinced about selling Dzeko, but if he had gone, we would have brought in a replacement. [Olivier] Giroud was a serious option, as was [Michy] Batshuayi.”

“We have faith in [Schick] and in Defrel,” he said. “Sometimes the figures I see reported are not accurate. So far, we’ve only spent €6 million on Schick and €5 million on Defrel and these were transfers which were good for us and we can soak up the cost of them.”