Why would Spartak Moscow want to accept the offer now? They'd rather wait and extract as much money out of us as possible on deadline day.
Hasn't he got a release clause? Surely we just bid that if we really want him and he wants to come. Reported to be €30m so not exactly a fortune nowadays, and can't see us getting him any cheaper
Given that I'm sure I read on here an interview where he specifically said he didn't want to come, I don't really know where this is going. Presumably we either entice him with money (highly unlikely) or he has a change of heart/wants to leave and join the PL and we are the only club in for him as the window comes to a close.
^this, exactly. And it doesn't have to be the club that's stalling - it could equally well be the player's agent. As an example: we have a player, Olufela Olamola who Yeovil would like to buy. We don't know whether Southampton want to sell and are happy with the price, but even if they do, if I were his agent I would be telling him: "you have nothing to lose by leaving your decision to the very last moment, right now you are a hot property, so anything could happen between now and the end of the window. However much you may like the idea of returning to Yeovil, for the price of 6 days delay, you could be compromising your career". In other words: the seller and the buyer may have agreed to the sale, but still it doesn't happen until the last moment, for a perfectly sensible reason.
Ah the old 'edited his social media pages' twist again. This is definitely setting us up for crushing disappointment.
I was just reading the spartak forum to see if I could pick up anything. (Which was no easy task as in true Russian style they don't have individual threads just one mega thread with 5000+pages. ) But I found this. It seems to say in the article its 30m euro release clause which might be where we got that from but if you read all the comments at the bottom and they seem to be saying it's wrong and it's actually 40m. https://bobsoccer.ru/user/37131/blog/?item=429703 Either way they seem to believes there's a release clause
