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I still wonder if we did this very public ally in order to show other targets that we had options?

Yep. Hope we get them in the cup next season so we get the chance to boo him.

Yes they are showing concern. But perhaps they don't realise that this is very common practice. That in most cases they wouldn't have heard about the negotiations and that this is just the way things sometimes/often happen? It would clearly be better if he had signed yesterday. He may never sign...

As ever in the window it's the ignorant getting flustered by the ill informed and all of this feeding of the catalyst of social media.

It's not a farce though is it. In "the old days" we'd have known nothing about this. We'd simply have heard that it had been done. So this isn't a farce, it's a negotiation. And if he values himself too highly, we'll try someone else.

I'm not going to get into a squabble with you on this thread - but on every thread you can you have referred to Barnes and had a go about him or anyone who suggests a different view to yours. Again and again and again you have done this. What you said "to show empathy" was this "Trust me, some...

Let it go. You're on the verge of being a little bit dull about Ashley Barnes.

Aren't we all in our own ways? He's a football fan like you and me - logic doesn't come in to it.

The problem is that a club will enquire about and then speak with a significant number of players in the transfer window. Some of these conversations will leak out. It doesn't mean that we want to buy everyone we are talking to and most negotiations will come to nothing. This does not indicate a...