Fair enough, but it looks like Van de Beek could head to Real for 55m similar to the numbers being floated as our ‘top’ bids for our targets. Personal opinion but VDB looks right up their in terms of quality, might not be what we’re looking for but there is quality out there if you’re not myopic.The issue is the quality of player.
We are obviously targeting players who are very highly rated and have a solid tally in their favour, even if the league is weak. Their respective clubs then see average/inferior players move for 40m and think "Our player is worth twice that, so this is the going rate" and because we don't want to lower our standards we have to wrestle with them on their valuation.
Also, we need to be looking at targets and thinking "Is this player better than Erisken" and honestly speaking there isn't many out there who are. Therefore we are left with a small pool of players to select from.