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Summer 2022 Transfer Window

Smacks of a piece mostly written before the weekend (seeing as he's still on holiday) with a brief mention of the weekends result tacked on in front.
 
Strange article from Tim. Literally silent all weekend (presumably on holiday) then sticks that out. I couldn’t even get half way through it. Hasn’t told us anything new and full of speculation.
 
Del Woppio said:
There's actually a hint of dissidence in them this time. It's piece that has completely ignored the temperature of the room
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Just read it. Atrocious article which reeks of I'm going on holiday and have to put out something out so I'll pre write and away we go. He's entitled to a holiday or to be ill, but should have dropped a note to his editor to not release it. Not like it stops being any less informative next week. He has correctly got a kicking for it

At the risk of repeating myself he doesn't follow the US model, who engage regularly with fans in Q&A's, podcasts (not his fault his was cancelled) and in the below article comments.

Don't expect you to read this in it's entirety, but have a look at the tone versus him. To give a little context Lurie and Roseman are still there and the reporters have to see them at press conferences etc... Night and day

theathletic.com

Paranoia, mismanagement and office politics: Inside the Eagles’ downfall under Jeffrey Lurie, Howie Roseman

Three years after the Eagles' first Super Bowl win, the Lombardi Trophy is more a vestige of a previous era than a shared memory.
theathletic.com theathletic.com
 
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Wonder if we've put in a loan fee for if they don't sign Adama like they'd done with trincao..
 
I just hope he extends his contract, not that I think he's great but it protects an asset worth 'some' money
 
I don't think he will unless we are prepared to pay him what we wouldn't before
 
It shouldn't come down to this for a top half Premier League club in the first place but we desperately need to learn from these errors and fast.

Don't accept payment schedules for a player that are so drawn out that you end up loaning money from a third party at a highish interest rate to compensate. Especially when it's one of the biggest clubs in the world buying.

Don't loan players out and just assume the club will take up the option. Get it written in properly. That's twice now, Cutrone and Adama.

If you have an option to buy a very highly rated young player you already have on loan where all things being equal, at least you'll get most/all of your money back even if it doesn't quite work out, take it up. You can't lose.

And these are just errors made in the transfer market, not an exhaustive list of what we have done wrong either. Doesn't even cover all the other shit they've set fire to in the last 2-3 years.
 
Del Woppio said:
There were a good few on here convinced it was all done, and that those that believed otherwise were morons who didn't understand the murky world of the Mendes carousel...
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I think those who said it must be a done deal - I was one, said so based on them not being THAT stupid. We were wrong, they are
 
AndyWolves said:
Do you think Barca rejecting him might make his demands more realistic?
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If anything will make him stick to the demands even more, seeing as in 12 months he will be a free agent and be able to demand X amount due to not transfer fee
 
Tony Towner said:
I think those who said it must be a done deal - I was one, said so based on them not being THAT stupid. We were wrong, they are
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Seems a ridiculously naive way to have conducted these set of circumstances. I’m fine with not keeping trincao. I’m actually fine with having Adama in our squad (aware others aren’t) but not at the wages hes
Demanding. Hands are pretty much tied and we need to sell in the summer unless anything has changed
 
I honestly don't think it was that bad an approach, it relied on trincao being better than Adama which, at the start of the season, most of us would probably have said he was.

Barca were never going to pay money for Adama and the only way this was going to happen was by swapping, just a shame that trincao turned out to be shit.
 
AndyWolves said:
I honestly don't think it was that bad an approach, it relied on trincao being better than Adama which, at the start of the season, most of us would probably have said he was.

Barca were never going to pay money for Adama and the only way this was going to happen was by swapping, just a shame that trincao turned out to be shit.
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Except the decision was made Jan 31st when it was already clear Trincao was rubbish…

And we already had a seperate deal for Trincao anyway so in no way needed to use Adama to facilitate that.

So to conclude, your either Scott Sellars of talking absolute nonsense.
 
AndyWolves said:
I honestly don't think it was that bad an approach, it relied on trincao being better than Adama which, at the start of the season, most of us would probably have said he was.

Barca were never going to pay money for Adama and the only way this was going to happen was by swapping, just a shame that trincao turned out to be shit.
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Somewhat missing that the deal was done at the end of January not August at which point Trincao had proven to be...shite. We've let him go for 6 months at which point he'll return and be worth less, meanwhile a deal was there to be done with Spurs. There's nothing remotely not bad about the approach
 
Oh that's another one. Stop these stupid loan deals where we have to pay a penalty clause for NOT signing someone. There's no way that's standard practice but we got clobbered for it on The Human Bollard last year and reports are we will with Trincao this time. Just throwing money away on literally nothing.

If the selling club insists on it then tell them to bike it and we'll sign someone else.
 
Deutsch Wolf said:
Oh that's another one. Stop these stupid loan deals where we have to pay a penalty clause for NOT signing someone. There's no way that's standard practice but we got clobbered for it on The Human Bollard last year and reports are we will with Trincao this time. Just throwing money away on literally nothing.

If the selling club insists on it then tell them to bike it and we'll sign someone else.
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It is standard practice. Clubs don’t give players away for free (except Wolves) unless it’s a development player. We were getting Loan fees for Henri Camara nearly 20 years ago.
 
Del Woppio said:
There were a good few on here convinced it was all done, and that those that believed otherwise were morons who didn't understand the murky world of the Mendes carousel...
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There were.

There were also some (like me) that didn't believe we could be so fucking stupid as to do a deal (or not as the case may be) that left us with a weaker squad for no financial gain at all!
 
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