As far as I’m aware, the appeals are granted more on the chance of the player becoming a first team regular. So in short, paying a larger fee may have given Percy a better opportunity of being granted a permit as it would imply the player would be a valuable asset to the team in more than...
To be honest, I think we will look to get it over the line this window. Relatively, £2.75 million is not a huge amount of money for a 24 year old striker. If he has a mediocre season and we want to offload him, it shouldn't be hard to make the money back from a European/Championship club...
About £2.75 million according to Google.
To get two fairly exciting strikers in for less than £10million is remarkable work*
*providing they're not duds