To be fair that’s not the right way of looking at it. The top 6 teams other than us on occasions tend to wait for a lower level PL team to take a punt on this type of profile player - Championship player with potential or a young player from abroad, and wait and see how he performs in the PL. If he proves himself then the big boys in the PL are happy to pay a fee 2-3 times what he would have been worth had they taken the punt originally. A couple of seasons in the PL and I’d be shocked if one of the big boys weren’t after him....Because we haven't signed the player THEY think is the next Messi despite not 1 team in the top half of the EPL even mentioned in passing as looking to buy him.