I have every faith in Tony Bloom and he didn't have to make that statement, he chose to. He's a fan at the end of the day.
Can you imagine Ivan Gazidis, The Glaziers or Daniel Levy doing something that? No, me neither.
But not always, look at the teams that didn't get what they wanted:
We didnt get a striker
Man City didnt get Sanchez
Chelsea...didnt seem to get as many as they needed
Newcastle...didn't really get anyone
Palace didn't get a striker
Everton didn't get a striker
Arsenal didn't seem to want to keep any players, let alone sign more.
I doubt there's many teams that will be fully really pleased with their work, there'll be upset, frustration at losing prime targets etc.
We may not have been short in any areas Tony, but....we still came up short.
It’s obviously never a straightforward process with so many factors involved to bring in a quality striker. But I still find it incredible that given the amount of time we had to sort this out, we still couldn’t get a deal over the line. Were our targets unrealistic ? Is our wage structure inadequate ? Going by the Janssen bid, it certainly looked like we were prepared to throw more money at the dilemma at the last minute, once our backs were really up against the wall, but by then it was all too late. Janssen looks like a last minute afterthought to me, not an actual target we were ever serious about until we were desperate.
I get that we’re PL rookies this season, but surely we *should* still be an attractive proposition to sign for. A club on the up, magnificent stadium and training ground, stable ownership with a well liked and respected manager, big crowds, great place to live. It’s not a hard sell to join a PL club like ours. And yet one by one, all our targets fell away until there was literally nobody left to bring in. Why ? We weren’t (to my knowledge) in any bidding wars with other clubs, where the auction just got too hot for us. Our targets stayed put, we were the only deal in town. So why ? What is the underlying reason ? This needs looking at.
I don’t just want to hear “its difficult”. Sorry, but other clubs seem to manage it, who on the face of it would be far less attractive propositions than ours. Is it simply a case that we refuse to pay the market rate ? Commendable to an extent of course, and I certainly wouldn’t want us to ‘do a Leeds’ obviously. But there is a balance to be struck, and at the moment, I think we’ve now left ourselves uncompetitive for the first half of the season. Come January the damage could be too great to rectify, and by the end of the season we could well be lamenting a swift return to the Championship, and left thinking “I just wish we’d really given it a proper go”.
Hope I'm wrong.
Reading between the lines I’m interpreting an understandable "Go *&%$ yourselves! You ungrateful bunch of *&*&s!"
Must admit, Southampton and Bournemouth both seem to have had average/poor windows. Bournemouth signed no-one yesterday did they ? Are they strong enough?
That's the trouble with reading between the lines, it just ends up being a exercise in projecting whatever the reader happens to think themselves.
This! It's always other clubs that seem to get their shit together.
We may not have been short in any areas Tony, but....we still came up short.
It’s obviously never a straightforward process with so many factors involved to bring in a quality striker. But I still find it incredible that given the amount of time we had to sort this out, we still couldn’t get a deal over the line. Were our targets unrealistic ? Is our wage structure inadequate ? Going by the Janssen bid, it certainly looked like we were prepared to throw more money at the dilemma at the last minute, once our backs were really up against the wall, but by then it was all too late. Janssen looks like a last minute afterthought to me, not an actual target we were ever serious about until we were desperate.
I get that we’re PL rookies this season, but surely we *should* still be an attractive proposition to sign for. A club on the up, magnificent stadium and training ground, stable ownership with a well liked and respected manager, big crowds, great place to live. It’s not a hard sell to join a PL club like ours. And yet one by one, all our targets fell away until there was literally nobody left to bring in. Why ? We weren’t (to my knowledge) in any bidding wars with other clubs, where the auction just got too hot for us. Our targets stayed put, we were the only deal in town. So why ? What is the underlying reason ? This needs looking at.
I don’t just want to hear “its difficult”. Sorry, but other clubs seem to manage it, who on the face of it would be far less attractive propositions than ours. Is it simply a case that we refuse to pay the market rate ? Commendable to an extent of course, and I certainly wouldn’t want us to ‘do a Leeds’ obviously. But there is a balance to be struck, and at the moment, I think we’ve now left ourselves uncompetitive for the first half of the season. Come January the damage could be too great to rectify, and by the end of the season we could well be lamenting a swift return to the Championship, and left thinking “I just wish we’d really given it a proper go”.
Hope I'm wrong.
Interesting phrase. Cash flow, or brinkmanship. On this occasion it failed, and bad luck for sure that Zurich weren't more upfront about known medical issues.The key phrase
"in the best possible position to execute deals at the optimum time"
I guess they figured the optimum time was near deadline day in order to satisfy the financials etc which possibly proved to be a mistake as we ran out of time
Reading between the lines I’m interpreting an understandable "Go *&%$ yourselves! You ungrateful bunch of *&*&s!"