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UnsyisaRhino wrote: ↑Fri Aug 22, 2025 9:54 pm I think the disappointment of the window so far is driving us into a bit of a tailspin here. There's so much we don't know and we're making so many assumptions about what we've tried to do, or not do, and who's driving (or derailing) the process.

We've gone for some ambitious targets, that we were almost universally happy about until they didn't pan out, they now seem to be a sign that we didn't have a plan, or were wasting time on targets we aren't ready for.

We've gone for some more 'realistic' targets and have been asked to pay crazy amounts (and rightly tried to push back against that) OR they've chosen other, more attractive, options over us. Shit but it happens, especially when we're far from an attractive option (the stadium isn't the pull some thought it might be it seems).

What's worrying is that we seemed to have approached each of these one at a time, without any other 'warm' deals (I realise I'm guess here too). We seem to be missing out then starting the next conversation from scratch.

AjaxAndy wrote: ↑Sat Aug 23, 2025 9:17 am I think we are doing deals one by one because we don't know how much we have to spend on the next untill we've finalised the current one.

We probably expected to pay about £30m for a winger but because prices have massively increased we haven't been sure what we have left over to spend on an RB, DM or loan fees etc.

Could have probably spent £15m on a RB and then been £5m short of getting a right winger.

Just the nature of working to an incredibly tight budget and trying to stay inside PSR unfortunately.

superpull wrote: ↑Sat Aug 23, 2025 9:20 am Not even close to a good enough reason to work on one deal at a time.
We're allowed to pull out of deals at late stages as well.

There was a story of Gareth Barry just hanging around the city in the hope we'd be signing him on the last day of the window.

fxceltic wrote: ↑Sat Aug 23, 2025 9:05 am Your last point in particular is the one that drives me fucking wild with rage and frustration

I try to rationalise it as “we don’t know whether they’re doing it one by one but maybe it’s just coming out looking that way”, but I can’t convince myself, doesn’t seem realistic

It’s two fold as well:
1) when we are looking at one position it seems to be approach by approach and
2) on a more macro level also it seems to be position by position, so we couldn’t apparently be doing any of this til we knew gana and JB had signed new deals, etc etc

It’s just a fucking nonsense, and to my point about trying to rationalise it, part of me thinks I must be wrong because it’s so fucking mental it can’t be getting done that way in reality

Having said that, I’ve worked in recruitment for 25 years and I know for a fact that companies and hiring managers are fucking mental and almost always do stuff that does not work well for them, operating against their own best interests all the time

Cozzie wrote: ↑Sat Aug 23, 2025 1:32 pm That Leicester player we are linked with Fatawu scored a peach today.

Goaljira wrote: ↑Sat Aug 23, 2025 2:13 pm Van Ewijk with another assist.

Brownie wrote: ↑Sat Aug 23, 2025 8:49 pm Everton have showed interest in signing Barcelona Right Back Héctor Fort on loan. West Ham have also been in talks with Barcelona

(Source - Spanish News site, SPORT )

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Brownie wrote: ↑Sat Aug 23, 2025 8:49 pm Everton have showed interest in signing Barcelona Right Back Héctor Fort on loan. West Ham have also been in talks with Barcelona

(Source - Spanish News site, SPORT )