It is a fair point that Baldini knows Lamela well, but if I was in Levy's shoes and was about to smash our transfer record by some considerable margin I would need more than the opinion of one person. I would be looking for 2nd, 3rd and maybe 4th opinions, prozone data, psyc eval, anal probes, football manager stats, match attax, or whatever the feck they use to analyse a player. As I say it might be all rubbish but if not we not done our due diligence and the evidence is staring us in the face every week.