How do you know this is a fact?
Because chairmen are coming out in the media are saying we are making derisadary bids for their players. The idiot over at Blackpool, and today Villa have come out and implied the same thing.
It's not Hendersons fault a club has spent so much money on him. The finger of responsibility has to lie square at the hands of Damien Commoli, who is our director of football, a man who should never be in this posiiton.The man who spent around 40 million on a injured Jonathan Woodgate, David Bentley and Santos.
With Adam the sticking point seems to be about 2-3 million. Of course, he won't be worth it, but Adam is a talent, and it seems odd you get a conscious about budget and saving money, when you just gone and spunked the best part of 55 million on two young British players that aren't exactly being met with widespread praise. Again with Downing, who is horribly over priced at 20 million, but our values remain apart by around 5 million. I'd have paid the extra 7 million and got in Downing, Adam, and tried to play budget over the Henderson transfer! But that's going into the realms of Football manager.
Back to Henderson ... let's hope the lad comes good. But seems horribly over priced at 20 million. If you want to say 16 million to suit your agenda, then even that is massivley over priced.