Well only time will tell, we can only guess at the moment.
It has played rather nicely into Ron's hands for the negotiations....Alonso has nowhere else really to go...so Ron can say we'll pay you x rather than having to pay whatever he asks for...
on another note: if you were having a dinner with C Horner, is there anything you would like to ask him? Clean and polite questions...i'm not going to upset him...hopefully.