Yes, because that is exactly how our recruitment system works (and most other PL clubs for that matter). They will have been looking at hundreds of players, producing reports etc on them for the manager to analyse and identify those players he wants to sign. Just because we've been tracking a...
As per AZ Gull post https://www.northstandchat.com/showthread.php?389906-Abdallah-Sima&p=9989766&viewfull=1#post9989766
We can recall in January but we’d need to win the appeal against the Fifa rule that prevents a player from playing for more than two clubs in a season.
Nunez joined Benfica on 4th September, we almost certainly weren't talking to Welbeck then, if at all before the end of the window. He didn't become available until a few hours before the window shut when his contract with Watford was terminated. This made Welbeck a free agent and enabled him to...
He wasn't available before then, we'd have never have been interested in signing him all the time Watford might have wanted any sort of fee for him. We swooped as soon as he became a free agent, not really a panic deal but taking advantage of the circumstances at the time.
Just because...