I’m not sure if that is true or it’s simply we wouldn’t meet Groningen‘s valuation. This all happened in the January window before Celtic had shown an interest. His move to Celtic came in the Summer after Poyet had left, the transfer fee was only a few hundred thousand more than we’d orignally...
Haven't the club said in the past that they don't have individual first, second and third choice (and so on) targets but they bracket players so they will have several players for any position they consider top tier targets and then secondary targets etc. We don't even know if they had Delaney...