Sevilla president Jose Maria Del Nido has revealed that the La Liga side was priced out of a move for Tottenham midfielder Giovani Dos Santos.
The Mexico international has already admitted that he thought his move to Sevilla was all but complete, only for Spurs to pull the plug on the deal on transfer deadline day.
And now Del Nido has claimed that their bid, which was £10m less than Udinese offered in January, was rejected by Spurs.
"The problem was that Udinese offered big and Sevilla could not pay an amount like that. We made an offer of around 5m euros plus add ons," he said.
"The player wanted to come, he and his father said so, but Sevilla could not make a crazy offer."
Del Nido also admitted that Sevilla's failure to qualify for the Europa League after a 3-2 aggregate defeat to Hannover also did not help their pursuit of Dos Santos.
He added: "If we were not beaten by Hannover I am not sure Giovani would have definitely come but we would have signed a player.
"What determined that we did not spend a significant amount on players was our elimination from the Europa League and the coach understands that."
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