would it though? Especially when your previous record fee is basically the average going price for decent players these days? Sure, at Madrid or Man U or PSG or someone splashing out 50m+ the bosses get involved. 15m though? What is there to discuss?
depending who you believe that could be 20% or more of our entire season budget, not impossibly ashley has asked to be kept informed of such a spend
So I think there's a distinction between your post and the one I quoted. The OP mentioned specifically "running it by him", which implies getting consent, and not just "kept informed of".
Either way, I was more getting at the fact that breaking our (rather small) record transfer fee means very little in an era of inflated player valuations and shouldn't be the baseline for "need to talk to the owner to get approval"