Except that that is exactly what Hughton said on Sky Sports News that we were trying to do. The Ipswich option looks as if it might have hit the buffers - perhaps they couldn't wait for a decision, or wouldn't wait until we had all the links in the chain in place.
No, we didn't break our club record and pay around £4M just to get cover in!
Many of us thought that we'd just go for a cheap replacement for Greer to be our 4th.CB (after Dunk, Goldson, and the BFG). How wrong we were!
Not bizarre at all - and it's not all cover players going out on loan, it's one young player who has only played a handful of games above League 2 level, and who wants regular game time after not playing for almost a year because of major surgery. So long as we can get a reliable 'old hand' on...