I'd accept that, we don't know though do we. If you're telling me that's what happened then sound, but since we're speculating: Can see it being a similar situation with Alves, similar transfer as the Barry one really as i remember, club didn't want to sell him and kept putting the price up. We don't know if the valuation in Benitez's head was the same as Parry's, and I can well imagine someone along the chain saying "that much for a fullback??" Different ownership yes, but they didn't really change anything with regards to how transfers happen, parry was doing his softly softly losey monkey act back then too.