Any hour spent chasing De Ligt was hardly wasted. He can only sign for one club so hardly any shame in making every conceivable effort. So we don't sign him but he knows the lengths we went to, in 5 years time he may be moving on again and we may then be back at the top. WHo knows. Also we don't work on one deal at a time, they are all interlinked and worked on together and at some point, a decision needs to be made by the club who to go with. On this occasion probably taken out of their hands. 20 years of success means we are overcharged for players. Nothing wrong with that.
That's not the point I have contention with.
I can't get over the fact you're apparently unable to work on more than one deal at a time, myself. Or how scattergun you seem to be
It's remarkable isn't it? I was just going through the transfer forum looking for updates and the list of players for quite some time has been:
We prob have more CBs than any other PL team. Prob need to sell some before we can buy and there prob isn't much of a demand for ours. Add to this that available options significantly better than what we have, can choose between any of a host of better positioned clubs than ours, and then you have our current dilemma. We seem to be well positioned for Maguire which is about as much as any reasonable fan could expect right now.
Goes back to giving Jones a contract. No reason to do that as a top club aside from incompetence
we will be chasing several players for the same position. Why sow up Maguire whilst DeLigt is not officially off the market etc. There are loads of deals up in the air for every club these things just sometimes take more time. Players and clubs have time yet to come to these decisions. Nailing down a player on the first day of the window (unless he's first choice) would be pretty silly especially for a club whose not quite sure of its own pulling power right now.
I think the only logical explanation is that our remaining buys depend on the sales. So it would be quite typical of us to sell Lukaku/Pogba a week before transfer window closes and then panic buy 2-3 players. I think that's exactly what's gonna happen.
My point was with De Ligt not certain and a wealth of defensive options, Juventus went ahead and signed two young promising defenders. That's in addition to the De Ligt deal. While it's been back and forth with it seems more certainty than we had.
I’m so tired of our transfer dealings.
Correct. They are not us. They are a shit poor team that has gone and signed the following:
But what could be the issue? Money? Then is that really a footballing issue?
Never going to happen and I think that's a good thing as daft as that may sound. I wanted him to be our pirority signing for quite some time but the more I think of it I never want us to get involved with another fatiola client ever again. He just moves them on after 3 years anyway.
He would be of course of how we used Mkh pogba and Lukaku who later dumped him.
The irony!
It is true to a point, both young defenders were signed or purchased together in advance during last Winter window and only one, Demiral will be part of the team while Romero will be sent on loan. Juve started working on De Ligt 2 years ago and already last summer made quite a high offer of 30Mplus bonuses that was rejected (actually they would have accepted if we included kean but that was out of the question).
Peach thinks we still have a chance, although they are very slim
This pic doesn’t work for me, too huge. What is it?
Question: Hi Simon, Do we have any chance of signing MdL? Thanks
talk about sitting on the fence, he obviously doesn't know anything - we aren't signing him I think that's obvious now.By whom?
you don't expect the Express to reveal their source do you? the dinner lady? cleaning team supervisor?
Duncan Castles mentioned this last week on the Transfer podcast.
Good pointyou don't expect the Express to reveal their source do you? the dinner lady? cleaning team supervisor?
Solid sources palyou don't expect the Express to reveal their source do you? the dinner lady? cleaning team supervisor?
