I'm pretty certain that we've covered all ground this year and know exactly what to expect and what to do.
It's obvious that Herrera wants the move, but Bilbao doesn't want him to go so we've no option but to go down the buy-out clause route. Last summer we tried to get him on the final day of the window and from what I can gather, we tried to get him cheaper by dealing with Bilbao directly. If I remember correctly, we didn't want to pay the buy-out clause as we felt he wasn't worth the money. Then again, that could be a cover story for the fact that we didn't have time for all the legal stages in his buy-out, or simply didn't know fully what it involved.