Quote Originally Posted by Power_n_Glory View Post
Lyon have denied receiving a £40m bid so that's a hint at what they could be looking for. Regardless, our approach needs to change if we're serious about needing a pacey striker. We haven't come in with our best bid from the sound of things.
Let's not kid ourselves, as much as we'd like things to be different, we're as cheap at they come, putting in lowball offers, adding £1 on top of an existing bid, it's starting to look like we just do it on purpose to p*ss off the teams who own the players we make offers for so that it looks to the outside world like we're serious about signings quality players (reduces the pressure on the club).

Offering less than West Ham makes no sense at all, if their offer is turned down you'll know yours will be, we're the transfer market clowns, but I guess because the reality is we don't really want to spend the money if we can get away with it and dead end rumours and news of failed bids helps us on that score.