If there is one good thing to take from this, it is that despite being a Championship club, we are still "competing" with Premier league clubs.
If we are doing that now, imagine how impressive we will seem to these kind of players if we ever DO get promoted. And our time will come.
Still...
It'll come down to money, but there does seem to be an assumption that the Premier League team would actually pay more than we would. Maybe that isn't actually the case.