Bound to.
I do think we occasionally get it wrong in that department, mainly the extent to which we are stubborn on valuations of players.
I 100% understand why we do it - we don't want to be pushovers in the market and once you sell cheap once, agents will exploit in the future - but we have had moments where we maybe had offers for £12m for a player (holding out for £15m) and didn't get it. Indeed, I think we had a window where we had two £12.5m offers for 2 separate players (potential £25m in) and we turned down both - could have been up the £25m and spent it wisely - I think Nat Phillips was one of the players but I can't remember - likely down (in part) to me getting about 3 hours of sleep.
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