No, I'm saying that we can't say that we're happy having an underprepared squad because it's only for a few games when every game counts. I'm not saying we'll lose all 3 for certain, I'm saying we're not giving ourselves the best chance to win.
Do you seriously think we ring up a player on deadline day for the first time and say “we know nothing about you, haven’t talked to you, haven’t talked to your club, but how about it?”
Yes and I used Hughes as another example of a player. That's generally how discussions work, you cite multiple examples to demonstrate the point you're making.
In some cases yes. Quite often we hear about a player suddenly being available due to business their club has done and we move quite quickly to sign them. That's how Deadline Day often works.
I'm not saying it's standard but quite a lot of deals can materialise from nothing on the day based on other business and players suddenly being excess. Callum Chambers for example was offered to us last deadline day but we couldn't afford him. That's from tan himself. If we'd been able to afford him he'd have come and we certainly hadn't been talking to him before that day.
You are using a player that we clearly had no interest in signing, and conspicuously didn’t sign, as proof we sign players with no prior contact or scouting? Righto.
The rantings of a petulant child. It’s almost like you’re willing the club to fail as long as you can gloat afterwards to tell everyone you were right all along.
Or just to tell you you've been a daft twat telling everyone everything's fine and we'll have a promotion challenging squad when the window closes. It's ok to be critical sometimes.
It does, did you see that documentary a few years back, it was following the Sheffield united (I think) manager around on deadline day, must have spoken to about 50 players in one day, several on the way before literally turning round and going elsewhere from what I remember, and end up signing hardly anyone.
You've just told everyone you had no clue who tomas assante was but thought he was a depth player at wba who isn't particularly prolific but you were happy to say it was great business when it was happening. You don't know the meaning of sometimes.
I said it was great business? Source? What i actually said was i’d never heard of him. If he did play for west brom in those two games last season, then i dont recall him standing out. And like most on here, googled him, looked at his stats and hoped that if we did sign him, he might turn out to be better than those stats. But yes, carry on with your made up ****e.
I meant to say you would have praised it if it had happened, but you're right you didn't say it was great business when announced.
