Lifted the following from Leitch's interview with Les Reed. I think there is a lot of sense there: be ready if an opportunity arises, but don't change all your plans and panic. I've been saying this for a while....buying a player can be an expensive mistake to make and we have always been a side to do all the due diligence. He mentions (in the same article) that teams are seeking to offload players and Saints don't want to buy someone else's mistakes. I'm with him in this...any team can have a middling season (which is what we are probably in for)....why make an expensive mistake that you pay for over several years? Such a purchase could reduce our ability to get a player we really want in the summer. At least if we buy a player now, we can be assured that he is one the club really wanted.
If we can do that in January we are open minded to it. If we can’t we are not just going to throw money at something because we lost three games and feel we need to be seen to doing something.
You won’t see us on Sky Sports saying we are bidding for every player around the country and then land nobody.
If we do anything we will do our business quietly, under the radar, as we did with Charlie (Austin) last year. That’s our method, that’s our model, it hasn’t changed and it’s not going to change.
