Its all posturing. You don't go all out with a first bid or you quickly find yourself in financial trouble, you have a starting point and then negotiate from there to try and find a compromise. If we hadn't been given any encouragement from QPR and the player then we would have given up by now.
But by the same token if you are buying a house at say £100k you usually offer about £90k, you don't say i will give you £50k for it,that's a 50 percent reduction.
We knew the price they valued him at, if we were serious we would have made a first offer of £8k.
All this is smoke and mirror's by Peace again.
Megson gave him a list and then went on tour, it seems that Pulis has fallen for the same trick.
We will still be trying to sign players on August 31.