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Precisely.

Perhaps Sami should reflect on why Ward has messed us around at the last minute. Maybe that he felt unwanted by our lack of action over the past weeks when we could and should have tied this one down.

But that's not totally the point is it. The point is that the club felt that Ward would come in on the day Buckley went as he was a fans favourite and would soften the blow, and yet the club couldn't nail it.

Today the plan should have been Buckley out, two in. A decent replacement for Buckley and our long term target, Ward. That's how a good management team would sort it. If Ward has been a long term target Burke should have been in constant contact with him and his agent explaining that we wanted...

And any decent left back will now know they were 2nd choice.

Unbelievable. We've messed around trying to outmanoeuvre Wolves and in doing so opened up the chance of losing out on an obvious target. This, on top of Grabban, Conway, Clayton shows that our arrogant strategy is not working. I expect we have a very poor reputation now with available players...