I don't see it like that at all.
£20+m is (amazingly) just a drop in the ocean, compared to AK getting a toe hold in the Premier League.
Even a couple of goals, assists, & performances, would make £20m look like chicken feed, and those performances would also get the Albion pointing in the...
I don't understand what you mean.
I'm questioning when does a player stop being "a raw work in progress"?
Suggesting that 70+ games in the second tier, even with the 2 serious injuries, is enough to have developed beyond "raw".
If he gets off to a flyer, he'll definitely not be going anywhere.
Although scroll forward 12 months and the bids won't be for 'just' £20m or from a 'best of the rest' side.