Clubs like to buy new players before selling those who are no longer required, as not to be left with gaps in thier squads. If a club has a squad of more than 25 players, after buying replacements, at the close of the transfer window, those additional players without a squad number are a drain...
You make a good case for the prosecution, and I'm sure in an ideal world we would have completed our business sooner, but nothing is ever as straightforward as it seems when you don't have all the relevant facts.
Let's give the club the benefit of the doubt and see what they can pull off by the...