We regurarly bid and buy players we dont even plan on keeping for such sums (we bought that Bologna CM Taider in January for such sums, only to sell him back this summer lol). Adding extra fee to come to a compromise with a very interesting talent we wanted would hardly been a stretch. Those kinda wheeling and dealing bids are common for a top club, we apparently just bought a Serie B youngster called Boayke for 4m for his half few days ago, which went fairly unnoticed by most, also bought Leali for similar sum it seems, who will prolly be just another young goalie who never see time in Juve shirt like all of the others before him. If we didnt bid enough to buy half of Verratti in similar sums (4-6m or so I mean), its either because we dont want him enough (not a priority, which I defenitely get, though signing for the future is allways priority for me), or we put too much trust on the bit of him wanting us to the point we were trying to hold it against Pescara and wait it out. Which has shown to be not a good tactic if it was the case.

