This is the most aggravating thing I've heard in a while.
How many times have we been linked to top European talent (Aguero...) only for us to have no urgency, no clinical sense of when to give them the contract to sign and let it slip through our fingers?
For years we have stalled and stalled and stall over deals, never snapped anyone up in these beginning weeks, and when the dust is clear, and the markets on.... Everyone decent has already signed for someone else. So far we've been linked with Borini, Tello and Sigurdsson (who are clearly our level) but instead of aggresively pursuing them (and they are interested) we stall and put it off. "Oh the market's on for a long time, no worries." Then we're stuck with last minute "proven British players". We're not down on the docks looking for players anymore, its a modern European market and from what i've seen in the last few years we've failed to realise that.
Now if Gylfi was asking for something outrageous (90k+pw) then ok, fair move, I'll look stupid and i'll admit I was wrong. But - we haven't heard ANYTHING except for Rodger's words about transfers a few weeks ago. Why can't they let us know what's going on? Hoffenheim gave him an ultimatum a week ago, of course he's going to look for other options if we aren't giving him anything.
Spurs, Chelsea, United, Arsenal have all been active already, and they are the ones we need to surpass. They're clearly doing something right, and we're doing it wrong. Why can't they just let us know how many players are on the shortlist? How many they are negotiating with? Once a week, every two weeks, whatever?
I suppose on the flip side of that they've been criticised for their public demeanour during the manager saga but this is a different story.
How many times have we been linked to top European talent (Aguero...) only for us to have no urgency, no clinical sense of when to give them the contract to sign and let it slip through our fingers?
For years we have stalled and stalled and stall over deals, never snapped anyone up in these beginning weeks, and when the dust is clear, and the markets on.... Everyone decent has already signed for someone else. So far we've been linked with Borini, Tello and Sigurdsson (who are clearly our level) but instead of aggresively pursuing them (and they are interested) we stall and put it off. "Oh the market's on for a long time, no worries." Then we're stuck with last minute "proven British players". We're not down on the docks looking for players anymore, its a modern European market and from what i've seen in the last few years we've failed to realise that.
Now if Gylfi was asking for something outrageous (90k+pw) then ok, fair move, I'll look stupid and i'll admit I was wrong. But - we haven't heard ANYTHING except for Rodger's words about transfers a few weeks ago. Why can't they let us know what's going on? Hoffenheim gave him an ultimatum a week ago, of course he's going to look for other options if we aren't giving him anything.
Spurs, Chelsea, United, Arsenal have all been active already, and they are the ones we need to surpass. They're clearly doing something right, and we're doing it wrong. Why can't they just let us know how many players are on the shortlist? How many they are negotiating with? Once a week, every two weeks, whatever?
I suppose on the flip side of that they've been criticised for their public demeanour during the manager saga but this is a different story.
