That's fine, but the art of the negotiation is correctly recognising the other teams position and the wider market dynamic. We are shit at that the farcical Summer of Botman being a good example or more recently O'Shea
Wasn't he mixed up in some craziness a while back?
Oh good. So it'll drag on until Feb and they'll hold fast and probably offer him a bigger contract and he'll stay. Leaving us scrabbling around to find someone at late notice.
After a quick Google it looks like a transfer to appease the manager as we really don't need him or even sounds good enough. RB or RM but no goals/assists this season in Turkey so no good as a RM and we are already well stocked at RB.
Can only presume we have agreed stuff with the player and hoping his desire to leave pushes Lens.
Not aimed at you, but there seems an inconsistency with this strategy and the teeth grinding over Lemina who did exactly the same thing
Also the age old thing of frothing away at other clubs spending like drunken sailors, but we should also pay any money for bang average players.
Always will be. Acceptable if it is an advantage to your club but utter scum if against.
Tangent from the other thread, but it would have been superb bantz to tap Leon up, then when he refused to play for Cov (he did) we should then have withdrawn our bid as we weren't keen on such unprofessional behaviour.
I guess you can let the club know you’d like to leave or you can be a dick and let the whole world know.
To be fair all Lemina did was tell the club he wanted to leave (early December) and then a bid came in and he said he wasn't ready to play.
True. I was thinking more in general terms not specifically Lemina.
