I'd agree with that, especially when these deals now are worth MILLIONS to clubs and also, we forget, effect people personally.
Now, don't for one second take this as a "won't somebody please think of the poor footballers" but these moves involve people leaving their home country and often...
What if you want to bring in another improvement of midfield quality in the next window though?
Do they buy the new midfielder they want and then get stuck with 2 excess midfielders until the next window if they somehow don't manage to sell them?
Tottenham didn't want Janssen and didn't manage...
And end up with too many players if Chelsea were late submitting their Drinkwater paperwork.
It's really not as straightforward as people would love to believe. You have two clubs, sometimes more if the agreement is part of a chain, agents representing clubs, agents representing players, agents...
We wanted to sign a striker and the club made it clear it was important. We didn't manage it.
Just because you REALLY want it to happen, it doesn't mean it will.
They sold a midfielder on the last day of the window. For all we know the Silva deal was all verbally agreed and suddenly hit a...
Surely the selling team being slow/leaving things late would be be a very good excuse.
It's a two way thing.
People should watch the Bleacher Report video on Sheffield United's deadline day to see how agents/selling team can suddenly pull the rug when everything seemed done.