True enough, but we'd have had weeks to source a replacement. Instead, we've got two weeks and the season has now started with Calde playing left back.
But this is a critique on decision making. No-one is saying "we should have paid him £5k a week more than the going rate two months ago". Some of our key contracts should have been tied up weeks ago. We could then have played the game with some of the lesser targets. It's totally naiive.