To give some context, we refused to pay 2 million loan fee for Tammy Abraham at a time when he hadn't really shown anything like his true ability.We signed Joe Garner permanently instead for 1.8. (Less said about that the better).A lot of players move for mental loan fees, sometimes it’s a way to get around FFP or do a team out of sell on % like Lo Celso of Mbappe.
Others are just mental amounts of money for a loan, but it is standard.
Duvan Zapata (who was pish at this point) joined Atalanta on a £13m loan fee, Morata was at Juve last season on a £10m loan fee and would be another £10m this season but they are choosing to sign him permanently.
Think Higauin has cost about £9m on loan, a couple of times and James Rodriguez also cost about £12m when he was loaned to Bayern.
I agree, mental money.
Chelsea are very much a business regarding loans compared to say,Liverpool when they initially loaned us Ryan Kent.