I was talking about the Thomas situation. That supposedly we want him and it's all agreed but we're not clear whether Huddersfield can actually do the deal with him being on loan to Nantes. I don't get how that uncertainty remains an ongoing thing. Surely football clubs have access to lawyers and can scrutinise a contract at short notice if required. Either we can do it or we can't. Find out which and crack on. I can't imagine what needs to be worked on over a prolonged period to come to an answer on this. I don't actually care that much, but I find it strange and hard to understand. My other example was with Barry being recalled by Villa and then left in limbo for weeks while everyone decides where he goes. I can't understand how they weren't able to decide where he goes ages ago. Before even recalling him from Stockport. You'd think they'd want him playing, not sat on his arse for a month. Supposedly everyone does their transfer window planning before the window opens but in this situation it seems like they're figuring it out on the fly which again is hard to understand. I think on Thomas AlRawdah's guess makes the most sense; that Nantes would have to agree and they're not doing until they have someone else. But the information we've been given makes it sound like an asynchronous process where someone is working on some nebulous ongoing task which somehow contributes to him being eventually released from Nantes.
The cliché goes that "it's not Football Manager" but I think actually that's a bit backwards because football games do often have these arbitrary time constraints like "To make this offer you have to wait three days for a response" which feel unrealistic because surely in real life you could make an offer and have an answer instantly, or have a phone call in which a price is negotiated all at once. Maybe a better cliche would be that it somehow inexplicably is like football manager.
But you aren't getting your information from the football club and their transfer specialists, you are getting it from a local journalist who is mixing together snippets of half-understood information, a dash of supposition and a dose of trying to sound knowledgeable. It's confusing and vague because your source is vague and confused!
Indeed. But from the sparse and probably often incorrect details that are released, from various sources, some people piece these together to create cast iron judgements and timelines. Stupid but true.
We're clearly waiting for Nantes to get a replacement or Thomas to kick up enough of a fuss that they send him back. That's nothing to do with the complexity of some clause in his deal but people like to pretend it's more complicate than it is to lord over others.
Imagine trying to buy a car off someone but he's currently lending it to a mate and the mate doesn't want to give it back. Arf.
If that was the case we could start a new save and do this season over. Transfers tend to favour the selling club in terms of the timeline, so in our case it's twice as difficult because we're trying to get one player from two different clubs. I highly doubt our transfer team went into this without knowing that there wasn't a break clause, perhaps arrogantly they thought they could just strongarm Nantes into giving him back.
Players can be identified, negotiated with and signed within hours on deadline day. Delays are down to posturing from clubs or from players, not some supposed complexity in their deals. Benson was agreed first day of last january but he held off for a better deal. Barry is being touted around to find the best deal for villa. These aren't super complex high iq contracts, they're just clubs posturing.
If we accept that sometimes the ITKers may actually know something, can we also accept that sometimes nobody knows no matter how many times some try to tell us they do. Like how the **** does anyone on here know what deal Huddersfield did with Nantes over a player on loan?
Sorba Thomas was benched for a relegation 6 pointer after being MOTM against Monaco the previous week. I think that’s a decent indication Nantes are preparing for life without him.
It'll probably come down to who pays the compensation to Nantes and how much for the terminated loan, us or Hudds.
We’re getting 500k for Longman? That is sensational. What next? We’re getting more than 1 million for Giles?
