I genuinely think any other club and they'd have accepted. Struck me Gerrard didn't want to sell to us.Itls crazy. They obvioulsy failed to register that they weren't dealing with the usual Everton of the last 5 years. Gerrard above all should have recognised we haven't got a pot to piss in and that the £5m bid was about as good as it was going to get.
If the quoted £10m was correct,that would become the highest fee they've ever received for a player. Absolute lunacy to turn that down for a player not currently first choice and who has only managed 7 games since signing in 2019.