Just tried to get on the ticket page on the website, there’s 595 people in front of me……are we unveiling a signing ?
It'll be coming down to final decisions from players I'd have thought. Clubs agree in principle and then it's down to the player. In a sense it's a positive that we're looking at players who are also wanted elsewhere. Though I can see that we could be maybe not as attractive a proposition as the last couple of widows for the reasons stated above.
Imminently like the supposed RB? I’m aware by window close we will have a squad. Fact is with the knowledge our squad from last season it would be gutted like this. There should’ve been more planning.
Imminently? No I don't think we will be imminently. I'm sure we'll get some over the next few weeks but we don't seem to be very close right now.
Totally get that the sooner some come in the better, but we were also told weeks ago it'd take as long as it takes to get the right players in and they weren't going to rush for the sake of getting bodies in. After 'that' summer window I'm surprised people have a problem with this approach. The owner who supposedly picks the team is leaving the recruitment choices entirely up to the manager, who's rightfully being choosy. This is how everyone's been saying it should be. Yes there's a lot to bring in, and yes they'll possibly need time to gel and get used to the playing style etc, but that was going to be the case regardless of whether they'd turned up this week just passed, or this coming week or the week after. TW seems to have got it fairly well drilled into the current crop pretty quickly in just a couple of weeks and some of the new signings might be effective immediately. Saying we're going to be in a relegation scrap with this team is redundant unless you believe nobody's coming in. My only question mark at the moment is how well this playing style will, or won't take to the Championship, but early signs are fairly encouraging in moments. People's arseholes are going 5p, 2p due to impatience. I think it's a defence mechanism; a subconscious fear that this could turn out to be another Allam situation and we'll downgrade ourselves too much. I don't personally believe that it will turn out that way, certainly not this season at least. I think Acun wants us to be competitive. Why wouldn't he?
Are we in the same motion believing the club solely haven’t signed anyone because we’re being picky? Because I can probably find some posts about people doubting everyone one of Rosenior’s signings were all first choice. it’s all media spin. Same as the player valuations we supposedly would sell Jaden for to only accept half
yes but in my mind imminent means he’s in the club shop getting his tracksuit. Not debating other offers
I still think the fact we lowballed greaves out the door is due to us being in the **** finanically in someway And i bet tim is extrmely pissed off behind closed doors
Yeh I don't buy it either. I'd guess it's because they have 'No1 targets' and are relying on them coming available. It's typical of the way we've done things.
I don't think there's anything wrong with what he's saying there. Reading between the lines, I think we will spend a bit of money, but it's just managing the message to stop club taking the piss because they know we're cash-rich and need players urgently. I suspect that's part of the reason for the delay in signings, we're probably trying to hold out to avoid being extorted. Then it comes down to who blinks first. Wouldn't be surprised if Acun was to go and give WBA what they want for Yokuşlu at some point to stimulate a bit of positivity, like he did with Philogene after Donny last year.
If we wanted to stop clubs thinking we're desperate we'd get some cheap or free agent signings sorted so clubs would stop thinking we're 7-8 players short.
Or instead of wasting millions on useless contracts for deadwood we could just hold our nerve? This time last year we had only signed Delap.
We had somewhat the makings of a semi decent squad and a manager that was in place from previous season. Different circumstances require different strategies.
