[Football] Interesting insight into transfer deadline day

[cjd]

He will get an absolute roasting from Uwe now.

 

[chaileyjem]

It's on another thread somewhere, and I can't find it now. I also think he's since protected his account.

But in short he said that he'd been told by Albion insiders that our transfer window had been a shambles.

His account is still live via
https://twitter.com/p_watson02/
but he's deleted that shambles tweet.

He also referenced signings earlier in the window via:
https://twitter.com/p_watson02/status/893930280897171458

 

[chaileyjem]

His account is still live via
https://twitter.com/p_watson02/
but he's deleted that shambles tweet.

He also referenced signings earlier in the window via:
https://twitter.com/p_watson02/status/893930280897171458

What looks like Paul Winstanley's wife also made several comments on the transfer window, or rather the reaction to it, on Twitter if you look.

 

[Rich Suvner]

Someone used a good analogy that a transfer is a bit like buying a house - agreeing the sale is the easy bit, then you have surveys and searches, negotiating over the results of those, any stuff to be left, mortgage arrangements an finance confirmed, exchange of contracts and completion. You've then got potentially a chain either side of that contract, each of which can break the chain.

If we use this decent analogy, then I think the Sheff Utd video is a great case study, and it's actually the football clubs - not the agents - that comes across as the fools / problem.

If I turned up at an estate agents and said I wanted to buy a house, but I only had 24 hours to make the purchase, should I be surprised if....
a) the deal doesn't happen in time
b) somebody in the chain smells my desperation and increases the price

I understand that sometimes you can be stuck in a chain, and there's little you can do, but too many clubs clearly don't finalise their business early enough. Manchester United this summer did nothing on transfer deadline day. That to me seems a sensible strategy.

 

[The Large One]

Thank you, I've now found it.
http://www.northstandchat.com/showthread.php?355803-Paul-Watson&highlight=watson

Personally, if that is his account, I think there is some sour grapes in it.

I'm not saying it isn't true, but not very professional.

His account is still live via
https://twitter.com/p_watson02/
but he's deleted that shambles tweet.

He also referenced signings earlier in the window via:
https://twitter.com/p_watson02/status/893930280897171458

Unbelievably unprofessional. Imagine if the head physio at Millwall or Arsenal or Rotherham or any other club posted that same tweet...

Not surprised it's been deleted.

 

[Blue Valkyrie]

I don't think that it's too much of a secret that someone has an axe to grind - there was even a scurrilous rumour posted on NSC that may well have since been deleted - I can't be bothered to check.

 

[Postman Pat]

If we use this decent analogy, then I think the Sheff Utd video is a great case study, and it's actually the football clubs - not the agents - that comes across as the fools / problem.

If I turned up at an estate agents and said I wanted to buy a house, but I only had 24 hours to make the purchase, should I be surprised if....
a) the deal doesn't happen in time
b) somebody in the chain smells my desperation and increases the price.

But if you are the seller (in this analogy Sinclair), and the estate agent says "we had a deal agreed, then I bumped up my fee and it then fell through" how would you feel? It seems the agent has screwed two clients just to line his own pockets. If he had stuck to his original fee then both of his clients would be at Sheff Utd and he would have still made some cash.

It appears their agent also has Oxlade-Chamberlain on his books, so I doubt he didn't do too badly from that particular deal.

 

[Rich Suvner]

I've no love for agents in the game - basically leeches.

But the clubs don't do themselves any favours, and put the agents in strong positions to capitalise and make lots of money.

 

[Farehamseagull]

It's on another thread somewhere, and I can't find it now. I also think he's since protected his account.

But in short he said that he'd been told by Albion insiders that our transfer window had been a shambles.

Really, wow!

I wasn't at all happy we didn't get a striker but to say it was a shambles seems a bit harsh at this stage. If we'd got Andone or Jansson over the line then I think it would have been a great window.

 

[Baker lite]

Agents in any guise are usually talentless. I'm sure we can all agree on that.

You're not wrong there ,just look at estate agents,hate filled slow coaches,playing on the fears and weaknesses of their victims.yet to meet one who's head I didn't want to kick in.
Scum


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[The Large One]

You're not wrong there ,just look at estate agents,hate filled slow coaches,playing on the fears and weaknesses of their victims.yet to meet one who's head I didn't want to kick in.
Scum

Would you like a pair of tweezers?

For picking out the splinters in your arse after getting off the fence...

 

[Murray 17]

If we use this decent analogy, then I think the Sheff Utd video is a great case study, and it's actually the football clubs - not the agents - that comes across as the fools / problem.

If I turned up at an estate agents and said I wanted to buy a house, but I only had 24 hours to make the purchase, should I be surprised if....
a) the deal doesn't happen in time
b) somebody in the chain smells my desperation and increases the price

I understand that sometimes you can be stuck in a chain, and there's little you can do, but too many clubs clearly don't finalise their business early enough. Manchester United this summer did nothing on transfer deadline day. That to me seems a sensible strategy.

...or you turned up at the estate agent and offered 50% of the asking price.