Well it's not Winstanley then. It boiled down to the latter stage which Bloom called the "optimal time" and Naylor said "window's open up in the last 48 hours". The Board stuck with their game plan.
Then WE GO AGAIN.
A few years older and wiser, but the stoic Albion support are patient when it comes to getting to the top division. Season 2052/53 it is.
We think that we're really big and an amazing draw. But so do 35 other English clubs, some with billionaire owners, throwing all rules out of the window on fees/wages.
Niasse, Janssen, Babacar, Jovetic would not think of little old Brighton & Hove Albion FC as a footballing attraction.
Unless Winstanley came up with the goods, but a King Canute wage structure (at first, until belatedly abandoned) from above led to none of the striker candidates fitting the bill in April to July?
Barber stated in the Sky TV studio after the Man City game "We must stay in the PL". No guarantee of that obviously when we are one say 10 clubs that will drop, but inherently he was making it abundantly clear that as a sustainable business it's the only place for the Albion to viably exist...
"... optimum time in the window .... ".
There isn't one when a club isn't a big draw to players, such as Spuds. The agent Jon Smith explained this in detail in his radio interview yesterday.
If TB is lucky enough to ever face a summer transfer window again before PL season, you can bet your...