As I say, not my job. I am, however, in a good position to say that we have failed for about 2 years to land the striker we oh so ****ing obviously need. Your point is moot.
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[Albion] How the club does transfers, from Paul Barber
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As I say, not my job. I am, however, in a good position to say that we have failed for about 2 years to land the striker we oh so ****ing obviously need. Your point is moot.
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Do their jobs well. Stop the ****ing BS , start walking the walk.
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Summer 2016 we bought Murray = 20 plus goals = promotion = a success.
And how much money do you think we will lose if we go down, which is far more likely if we fail once again to sign a quality striker?
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No. We’d agreed the prices dictated by the rather silly market. A concept PB AND yourself both seem to struggle with.
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It wouldn't be such an issue if it was only this Bournemouth match, or if it wasn't all so bloody predictable.
Also, I think there is enough circumstantial evidence to suggest that on deadline day, we had a (£16m?) deal agreed with Fiorentina for Babacar but his wife wanted to stay in Florence.
That makes the list:-
1 - Fell through early August.
2 - Deadline day panic buys, having earlier had multiple low bids turned down.
1 - After deadline desperation.
Not exactly awe inspiring, is it?
GT49er
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It wasn't four months after one player (Dwema or something?) failed the medical, and we moved on to Plan B, whose deal fell through when his club couldn't get his replacement in. And it was less than four months then until we went for Plan C (the one we tried getting an extension for - and dodged a bullet on, imo). In fact the whole summer transfer window was only four months long!
The fact that Plan C was a scramble was that two previous plans had suddenly collapsed through no fault of the Albion's.
You do realise the club aren't limited to doing only 1 deal at a time, don't you?
Icy Gull
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So are you saying we didn’t have over four months to get it sorted? Lost me there I’m afraid. I’ve heard all the excuses but the fact is we failed. Best hope we don’t get a repeat in January as I think we’ll go down because of it.
It's always worth reminding, the hard of thinking, really the club had 18+ months to get this sorted.
What with the 2 previously oh-so-near misses at promotion, plus what turns out to be a £40m 'promotion' spend.
Then when that still isn't enough evidence and that theory gets rubbished, we can then reply with 1 name:-
Pascal Gross.
Now tell me the club only had 4 months to buy a striker.
GT49er
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Yes, of course I do, but they would be prioritised. We wouldn't be writing out the cheque (or even finalising the small print) for option C while option A was still on the brink of signing.
GT49er
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We only had four months to sign one. Yes, we'd have done a lot of research and preparatory work, but we wouldn't even have begun to discuss detailed terms with that Spurs bloke when we were on the verge of signing Dwaema (sp?). If he hadn't failed his medical, we wouldn't have had to suddenly switch to Plan B and then Plan C. But yes, I did realise that we didn't manage to sign a striker.
Sorry if I lost you; can't offer any help there, I'm afraid.
A Guardian journo, somewhat tongue in cheek, suggested the reason Everton landed themselves with such an unbalanced squad, when they finally landed Gylfi (sp) was because they were too polite to tell Swansea 'we don't want him now, we've moved onto plans B & C'.
It seems some would suggest the Albion are the exact opposite.
It seems some would suggest the Albion are the exact opposite.
Justice
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No guarantee signing another striker in the summer would of improved our current league position.
The club openly admitted as much in programme notes in the spring at some stage, saying planning on players for the PL had been a long term ongoing process when we were only mid way through last season. You wouldn't expect anything less from a large business, run by TB and PB.