From the Argus:
Sunday July 5 to Saturday July 11: Training camp French Alps Saturday
Saturday July 11: Friendly in Geneva, opponents and kick-off tbc
From this, I would say I would be happy with 2 signings before the flight... LB and ST.
Apology accepted. As I said before, my faith and, more importantly, thousands of our butterfly supporters, needs restoring, even if people like you will trust the board no matter what....
My thoughts are it would clearly be best to have the number 1 targets before the camp. We seem to be guilty in the past of holding out for too long with our number 1 targets (who then move elsewhere) when we should have moved on to target 2. Set a deadline, whether that be the camp, or some...
TBF Tony said "We concluded a deal to sign Toko before their season and ours had ended." The word 'concluded' is, at best, misleading, since the deal was concluded with Toko's signing on the dotted line. No apology required.
Here's a link...
Note the deal was finalised with a medical just before Toko was signed, and the signing was announced soon after:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/27494507
Toko's signing was announced when he was signed.
But you are right there is zero benefit to not announcing as soon as the pen has hit the paper, whether that be May, June, July or, god forbid, late August.
I admire your (blind) faith, and I certainly agree that (a) the recruitment team is new, and (b) Kayal looks to be a great signing, but...
One swallow does not make a summer.
We have an awful lot to do - more recruitment of quality players is required this summer than last.
We cannot afford to...
Why do we have to trust the club after last summer's shambles!? And, if a player is signed, they cannot be gazumped, so no point in keeping the signing secret...
I'm worried. This summer's window is vital to our club's future. We ****ed-up big time last summer. We cannot afford to do so again.
If the lickers would just stop telling the bedwetters (who were proved 100% correct last summer) to be patient, that would make things a lot better on here.