[BaggieSteve]

Your opinions may well be right regarding Gibbs and are probably better informed than mine but my frustration is that this approach is always the same. We've seen it countless times in the last 4/6 transfer windows. We've being saying for 12 months that a left back was a priority; we failed to sign Schlupp last year (not that I'm sorry about that) but this window both Charlie Taylor and Andrew Robertson have passed us by. We now seem to have alighted on Gibbs who seems to be Pulis' preferred choice - if that is the case, then pay the extra £2 million and get him, if it's the player Pulis really wants. In the current climate, £2 million is nothing so why haggle over that. You may be right in your assessment that he's not worth £12 million but I would say that, in all honesty, none of the figures being quoted for players at present are justified - I know he scored a great goal in the week but I don't believe Rodriguez is worth £15 million, nowhere near. I could understand reticence over Gibbs if they're asking £20 million, maybe even £15 million, but they're not; they've valued him at £12 million. If left back is so critical, just pay it and sign him.