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Thank you, morrisThis thread seem to involve lots of people repeatedly saying the same thing.
We bid it wasn't enough, we are waiting. No need to post anything else
Thank you, morrisThis thread seem to involve lots of people repeatedly saying the same thing.
We bid it wasn't enough, we are waiting. No need to post anything else
I think that was for the apocalypse.I thought all the windows were meant to align this summer or has that been given up on?
And yet you did!This thread seem to involve lots of people repeatedly saying the same thing.
We bid it wasn't enough, we are waiting. No need to post anything else
Yeah, every club has a difficult deal once in a while, but it seems more frequent with us.Agree with that. Was just pointing out that it was a short sighted statement to say that it’s only us who drag out deals
"Thorris".Thank you, morris
First, I doubt it's just the case of a million or two, it'll much more than that we're haggling over. Also, it's not just about one transfer, as soon as we "jUsT pAy ThE mOnEy" once, every selling club knows it, and we'll add £XXm onto the asking price.Exactly that. Can understand it if over paying on one fee might prevent you signing all your targets but in this case our only real target is Lo Celso with RS as a nice to have that won't make a difference to the first 11. Hopefully we have a mental deadline to quit playing silly buggers and just get this done.
Honestly, this has been spelt out on SC so many times but still every window we get “oThEr CluBS nEVer hAVE As muCH trOUBle as US sIGning PLaYeRs”
Having also shelled out some big bucks to buy Zaha only last April.Palace don't want Zaha to go and don't need to sell him to do what they want. They sold Wan Bissaka and only ever sign cheaper players.
The equivalent would be that palace had not sold Wan Bissaka, had signed Pedro from Chelsea as a replacement for Zaha and were 50m in the hole hoping to sell Zaha to cover that and sign the other couple of players they wanted.
There is no reason why both can’t be true. Other clubs of course can take a long time to secure deals. But it doesn’t necessarily mean we can’t be any worse.Honestly, this has been spelt out on SC so many times but still every window we get “oThEr CluBS nEVer hAVE As muCH trOUBle as US sIGning PLaYeRs”
Discussion should move fwd though not just in a circleMight as well close the site down in that case. It’s a discussion forum... for people to ‘discuss’ things, not wait for prompts to say their piece and then sit on their hands for days or weeks.
Considering we are the only club to ever not sign a player during the summer transfer window, I think it is not without foundation to believe we seem to make harder work of signing players than our peers.
First, I doubt it's just the case of a million or two, it'll much more than that we're haggling over. Also, it's not just about one transfer, as soon as we "jUsT pAy ThE mOnEy" once, every selling club knows it, and we'll add £XXm onto the asking price.
Or was it just the fact we were bang in the middle of building a building a billion pound stadium during the last transfer windows and the decision was taken not sign players for the sake of it?
ALL other teams have trouble signing players.
As is said every window... so many of the posters on this forum would be horrible businessmen.
'Just pay them what they want' is not a good tactic and certainly one we are in no position to just do.
First, I doubt it's just the case of a million or two, it'll much more than that we're haggling over. Also, it's not just about one transfer, as soon as we "jUsT pAy ThE mOnEy" once, every selling club knows it, and we'll add £XXm onto the asking price.
Nobody said other clubs don't have problems signing players, just we seem to have more difficulty in doing so.