I think Southampton playing hardball helps us to an extent.
Your player farms who buy players for profit will look at what's on the table,the high fee and especially the 25% sell on and not be that interested.
If they had accepted out £27m offer, id of expected to see Spurs & Chelsea sneak in at that value
I think they are trying to flush others out and start a bidding war mate, they'll know the clubs who have made an enquiry earlier in the window, they are basically calling final orders.
The attraction of Dibling, is he will double in price in a couple of years for another club, no club is giving a quarter of that away - they will know that themselves, they are using Ornstein to try and flush out other interest.