This is the problem with leaving it deliberately till the last few hours. It all becomes a rush and you leave yourself at risk of getting gazumped with nowhere to go.
If one accepts the storey it at least means we were again paying good money for a player.
If we paid good money we’d have probably got him… But yes if you believe it we were still looking for permanent signings costing decent amounts.
Indeed - would like to know how much we offered. It’s says “blown Charlton out the water”. Wigan didn’t need to do that, they could have just offered 1p more than us to be the highest bidder. What happened is St Johnstone have £600k, Wigan said yes and we said no.
Being blown out of the water by Wigan is no surprise, sounds like it was all agreed before they came in, most likely doubled the offer we’d agreed. Paying £600k for a CB sounds a bit much but at least we are looking to spend some money.
Glad that chap at Wigan didn’t come out and say “we aren’t buying the title”
but realistically it sounds like we had done a deal and agreed a fee. If they have “ blown us out of the water“ then they are clearly just throwing money at the problem to stop other clubs buying them. They are stockpiling players. Strange
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Arter is also more of a defensive midfielder while Dempsey’s a goalscoring midfielder, and Lee appears to have taken up that role.
and they're not buying their way out of the Division
(God's that smell like they are dieing from the inside out mind, but God's nonetheless)
but realistically it sounds like we had done a deal and agreed a fee. If they have “ blown us out of the water“ then they are clearly just throwing money at the problem to stop other clubs buying them. They are stockpiling players. Strange