I suggest something is wrong with him. For Barca to be adding those clauses just seems iffy to me. I mean 20% in the first 2 years if he is sold...surely that means something 
And to be let go for 4.7 million initially, hmmm...
This has been bugging me, so I've been looking into it. Unfortunately I've only found some badly translated information, but which could relate to an ankle injury he sustained which doesn't seem to go away. Whether or not the Barca medical staff feel it could be a risk to his long-term career I don't know, but perhaps his current price-tag could be an indication? Anyway, for what it's worth the link is here, though I suggest you take out your pigeon-english phrasebook as it's hard going!
http://en.giovannidossantosramirez.com/
Giovani will be operated ankle
UN to solve problems facing provocations and to inconvenience
The Mexican Giovani dos Santos will be submitted on Monday a surgical operation in hospital in Barcelona to solve a problem that suffers in the left ankle and dragged since late last year, as well has confirmed FC Barcelona. The communiqué doctor, the Catalan entity has been reported that the operation will consist of an intervention in the bone trigone, which is in part back of the talus.
The Barcelona player has not ceased to suffer discomfort in the area to be seized after the November 13, 2007 suffered a post player Manuel Carrion, Alcoyano, when the club played in Alcoy a meeting of the Copa de Rey. As a result of encontronazo, Giovanni left the field on a stretcher affected Grade 1 sprain in the external lateral ligament of the left ankle, bone without affectation.
A month ago, the footballer caused by low back discomfort in the ankle and came to miss the Barcelona-Almeria. Giovanni will be the third player operated in less than a week after the passage through the operating room yesterday Yaya Toure and Gabi Milito.
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