Ghost Hardware
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- Aug 31, 2012
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Tbh I think we just need to brace ourselves for the likely reality of the rest of the window. We have been told by both the press and ITK’s that we need to sell first. Thus far we have sold 2 players all summer, one of which possibly our greatest ever player that we didn’t really want to sell, and we have 16 days of the window left. That’s 16 days to sell roughly 7 players before we can make any serious moves. Even if we said we only need to sell 2 or 3 I think we’d struggle.
Beyond that most quality players won’t be leaving in the last week of the window because their owners very likely won’t want to sell a prized asset that late and leave themselves short. If anything prices for quality players will only be going up the closer we get to deadline day.
Essentially you get to a point where the majority of players left on the market are opportunistic buys (ie those that have been transfer listed by their club or they themselves asked for a move). At this point we only have one serious link and that’s to a very talented but incredibly raw 21 year old CF. Tbf maybe we could also throw Schuurs in there although that also seems to have stalled. Chiesa (now that juve want to keep him) is not going to be sold in the last 2/3 days of the window. Not unless we pay handsomely which we never ever will. The likes of Fati however probably will but really would his acquisition make any real sense? It would be a ginormous gamble imo.
I get our squad is bloated and I know we need to sell, but time is running out and we have a lot players to shift. I don’t see this ending up any other way then this coming down to the wire with us picking up at least one (if not more) player that is a complete opportunistic gamble. Whilst I understand our need to trim the squad It’s also been handled so incredibly badly imo. Really it should have been done already even if that meant us accepting much low fees.
I know I’m lamenting the inevitable and who really knows what’s going on behind the scenes but I just feel like I’ve seen this show too many times before.
Fact is we just sold the best striker in the world and thus have been significantly weakened, have under 3 weeks until the window ends, our primary target is a 21 year old that’s only played half a season in the Jupiler pro league and have to sell before we can buy… I guess you could say I am somewhat concerned.
