Ok, no worries. (They only have room for students, I checked).

Yes, I guess I assumed that universities never have any negotiation room upwards, and that I therefore had nothing to negotiate about, but I guess there is always room to negotiate downwards . But there is always a steep learning curve when emigrating/immigrating, you can never be 100% prepared unfortunately, even when you done it several times, in different countries.

I am grateful for the existence of forums .