It's a fast moving market, a players value can change massively over 6 months. It's all well and good you making this point when it is someone else's money, apply it to a real world situation and I suspect you'd be the same. If you ordered a meal and it was poor, would you just pay up full price, or would you send it back or ask for a discount? The truth is we are not a wash with cash, so if we don't think Kirk is worth £500K, we shouldn't just cough up, we should offer what we are prepared to pay and move on if a deal can't be struck. I don't think clubs will lose much sleep over it, pretty much every club does it.