See this is the thing that bothers me. Everyone is absolutely convinced that the asking price is £18 million when really we ain't got a clue. So if in reality the asking price is, say, £17 million and he goes for that, everyone's going to say we're weak or we caved in or Liverpool won because we lowered the price.
In the grand scheme of things it doesn't really matter but I can just see the comments from the press, scousers - even Villa fans.