I cant say Ole seemed too confident when asked about securing him tonight, lots of uses of "hopefully"
I'm not sure I'm too keen on the announcement trend of how we have agreed terms with the club but there is still the medical and personal terms to sort, presumably he will have at least the medical tomorrow?
I think we did it recently with someone else didnt we? We've probably done it this way to try and cool the tensions that are beginning to bubble over however I preferred the old way of the media saying we've agreed terms then all becomes official when weve got a picture of him signing/ standing with the shirt/ video walking out to piano music! If we fail to get this done after saying we've agreed a fee with Sporting it could fuel the fire even more. Though obviously if he doesn't agree he isnt the "right type of player." Surely we must have some sort of verbal agreement with him about wage etc?
Shame we didn't get him in the summer, or earlier in the window, hindsight eh! I'm a little concerned he will take a little time to settle however can see the pressure on him being really high due to probably being our only signing and with the injury situation I think he will be expected to hit the ground running.
What's he like at set pieces? Not that we will probably let him take them given Mata who's usually pretty reliable didnt take it tonight!