Increasingly, as suspected, it looks like the 3rd party ownership issue is something that is getting in the way.
Presumably we'd have to do separate deals with Boca, and whoever owns the other 15% to allow him to actually play for us? I'm guessing they changed the rules in the light of the...
I think this is the crux of it. I'm not sure he will be able to leave on a free, well not totally. Presumably the investment group that part owns him will be able to hold out for some kind of fee when he moves? Not too sure how things work with 3rd party ownership though - totally muddies the...
We were 100% interested in the summer, but it looked like he was going to be signing for Inter. For whatever reason, that deal didn't happen. Whether or not Inter go back again in January will be the crucial factor in our hopes of getting him.
However, the fact that we're being credibly linked...
You must have changed your tune then.
A quick look at your previous posts reveals that basically every single one is anti-Barber and/or anti-Bloom.
This particular gem from February this year stuck out:
"WE will never be promotion all the time Paul Barber is part off our club also we need a...
I think there's almost certainly a degree of truth in this too.
I'd imagine he wanted to wait to see what the first few 'punishments' would be like. Now he's seen that they were pretty paltry, he's probably feeling more comfortable loosening the purse strings.