Not sure I get this bidding war business. For sure, we get a bit more for Vik if there are six or seven teams after him than if there are two or three, but he's not like a Van Gogh painting, where there are hardly any to start with, there are never going to be any more, and they come up for sale once in a blue moon; he's a striker who's had one very good season in the Championship, who has some premier league assets - pace, strength, dribbling - and lacks others - finishing, heading. Playing with better players, it's easy to imagine him kicking on and scoring fifteen+ Premiership goals; equally, playing against better players, it's easy to imagine him standing still or going backwards, and scoring four or five. I'm sure he is a target for Burnley, West Ham, Everton, etc., but they'll have plenty of others and a value they set on Vik; if they think we want too much, they'll move on to the next on the list. Also, the Van Gogh painting has no no say in whom it's sold to, but Vik definitely does. As we all know, it may suit the club to sell a player to Blackburn Rovers, but if it suits the player better to be sold to Aston Villa instead, Aston Villa is where he's going to go.
Vik has zero incentive to sign any contract we can afford to offer him, and we can't let him go for nothing in a year - every potential buyer knows this. Once Brighton have taken their cut, and the fee has been top sliced to cover operating losses, it wouldn't surprise me at all if there's only £5-6M for Robbins to spend.