I once read that there is a quote from Shakespeare for every situation. I'll start us off:
'There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so'.
mmmm.... interesting thought. Pay £500k now and then reduce the cost of the club by a few million so you can pick it up for a song when it goes belly-up.
Let's look on the bright side. If other clubs are handing over hard cash then they don't believe that we're about to go out of business or else they would wait and pick the players up for nothing.
Read all about it in his autobiography in the Times:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/article6586158.ece
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/article6578727.ece
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/article6597000.ece
Always remember that it's having to live through the bad times that makes the good times so great. Great goals, injury-time winnners, last-minute escapes at the end of the season, memories are made of these!
1. Perhaps he is busy in meetings with all the parties concerned ironing out the last-minute snags? There again, he might be out on the town having a booze-up.