Any reason why we always normally leave it to the last day to get transfers in. We need to look at our negotiating team and how they do business. Fingers crossed we don't sign some oldie on Friday.
Nearly all transfers in January is done last day. I think I heard it's like 90% or something. Just the way it is.
Judging by the fact that there are special programmes dedicated to "deadline day" we are not the only ones. This has been mentioned on here recently, but here is a list: 1. Many possible transfers are subject to other players coming onto the selling club ... the house chain scenario. If one sale fails then the rest of the chain suffers too. 2. Selling clubs and players agents will hold out in case they get a better offer. 3. A good player will have more than one interested party vying for their services. 4. We are not a popular or "massive" club. Trying to attract players to come to Loftus Road cannot be easy - especially when there is competition. (We've thrown silly money at the problem in the past, hopefully not this year.) 5. Etc, etc.
That's okay if it has to be last day than so be it, as long as we have eyes on several strikers, and don't panic buy another Zamora.
[Nicky Shorey] Dave Kitson [thanks QPR999] explains all.... http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2011/aug/26/secret-footballer-transfer-deadline-day You need an agent to drive a deal otherwise nothing would ever get done. It is also worth remembering that this is a two-way street. Clubs turn quickly from gamekeeper to poacher when they are replacing departed players, and when it comes to shifting their dead wood they know that the most effective way to do so is for an outside agent to make calls to their contacts at other clubs. My manager told me that between the end of the season and the end of the transfer window he receives up to 30 calls a day from agents offering him players, and very often players that he knows to be contracted at other clubs. In my case I knew I was moving in the window but that did not stop both the buying club and the selling club trying to run the clock down in the hope that the price would go up or go down depending on which side of the boardroom table you happened to be sitting on. In the end the selling club blinked first. Because of that we got the usual fun and games with the notorious last-minute hitch – my new employers tried on the age-old tactic of unnecessarily leaving things until the last possible moment, meaning that the final contract was faxed over with roughly half an hour to spare in the hope that I would sign it hurriedly and fax it back. The contract was missing all of the previously agreed bonuses and, if I had put pen to paper, I would have been worse off than when I started. This is such a common practice when time is short that I am almost embarrassed to mention it, yet a few players have had their fingers burned over the years because their agents missed a trick.
He has a one line wiki entry, and if he's not a current international (doubt it) we would never get a work permit, so sounds like bollocks.
We really need some wheeler dealing before Friday:- please log in to view this image Let's hope we don't get shown the finger:- please log in to view this image
Thats Internacional of Brazil, 11 appearances no goals, 11 goals in 36 appearances for Porto B, 1 appearance for Porto. This really doesn't sound like real to me, at least not for our short term needs.
If it makes you feel any better, its pissing off Toad Face aswell: "This window has been the most ruthless! That's because at this stage of the window there are few players available and this season more so than ever before. We all end up chasing the same player.I thought I had got Lacina Traore the other day when I was sat with the sporting director of Monaco just about to sign the players. And all of a sudden it didn't happen.The volatility of this window is pretty ferocious. You can't think you are going to get somebody until he has signed on the dotted line. You never know what is going to happen.I've had players pinched from the hotel, I've had them pinched from the airport when everything has been agreed. I genuinely threaten to sack the secretary if he doesn't get the paperwork done and sign the player that day.Even though it could be 11.30 at night, you can't leave them in the hotel and come back the next day for them, because from my experience that is very dangerous."
Now I'll have nightmares about the bulky figure of Sam Allardyce lurking malevolently in dimly lit hotel corridors.....
