I'm sure money and persuasion were used. Eddie Howe, by all accounts, vetoed the move. We don't know what was offered, or how much should have been offered, or whether no amount of money in the world would have facilitated the deal. Anyway, that's an end of it. GM last season may well have made...
Don't you ever read posts you reply to?
"(apart from that bloke who came on as a sub for the West Ham squatters today, and the loan we wanted that the parent club wouldn't agree to)"
And who was available, and might have been willing to come here in January that we might have gone for (apart from that bloke who came on as a sub for the West Ham squatters today, and the loan we wanted that the parent club wouldn't agree to)?