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Leicester - Adrien Silva
- Thread starter Dick Head
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Cowfold Seagull
Fan of the 17 bus
14 seconds, 14 minutes, 14 hours, 14 days. The deadline is the deadline. What difference does it make how late it was?
Goring-by-Seagull
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- Jan 5, 2012
- 1,980
Snooze you lose
Cowfold Seagull
Fan of the 17 bus
Remind you of anyone?
DavidRyder
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- Jul 23, 2013
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Should have asked for a 2 hour extension....
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Should have asked for a 15 second extension....
hart's shirt
Well-known member
That's what happens when a club leaves everything to the last minute.
No excuses for them. No excuses for us.
No excuses for them. No excuses for us.
Meade's Ball
Well-known member
14 seconds to comply. Tut.
Crazy-minded FIFA maniacal Satans.
Crazy-minded FIFA maniacal Satans.
Don Tmatter
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Was he Drinkwater's replacement?
Moshe Gariani
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- Mar 10, 2005
- 12,071
Expect better from you...
It is obviously counterintuitive in the context of all normal transactions but leaving it to the last minute is precisely what most top level football clubs are UNABLE to avoid with a lot of transfer deals. I don't really understand exactly how or why it is like that other than a simple logic that clubs with decent players hold onto them until they have replacements lined up and/or have extracted the maximum value from the competitive market.
Birdie Boy
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- Jun 17, 2011
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Did they register at 23:00 &14 seconds or 23:01 &14 seconds? Do the rules say must be registered by 23:00? If so, surely the first example would have been good enough. Maybe they say, registered by 22:59 & 59 seconds. 
It probably took 15 seconds minimum to get it through the fax! #fifalivinginthedarkages
It probably took 15 seconds minimum to get it through the fax! #fifalivinginthedarkages
Blue Valkyrie
Not seen such Bravery!
Quite right.
Rules is rules.
Entirely their fault for not being urgent enough with the transfer - they had from June 10th to complete it !!
Rules is rules.
Entirely their fault for not being urgent enough with the transfer - they had from June 10th to complete it !!
No sympathy from me, if you leave things are to the last minute you are always at risk of something like this.
To take a purely hypothetical comparison, if someone had 7 years to register their child for a free football shirt, but missed the deadline by a few weeks and then went online to rant and rave about how appallingly their club had treated them, how much sympathy would they be likely to get?
To take a purely hypothetical comparison, if someone had 7 years to register their child for a free football shirt, but missed the deadline by a few weeks and then went online to rant and rave about how appallingly their club had treated them, how much sympathy would they be likely to get?
GreersElbow
New member
disgusting #fansnotcustomersI laughed out loud at this!
mejonaNO12 aka riskit
Well-known member
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.
Marshy
Well-known member
I am suprised this does not happen more often to be honest
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
Leicester are insisting they sent the documents through before the deadline.
http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/s...news/live-leicester-city-transfer-news-430489
#lcfc paperwork for Adrien Silva was sent seconds BEFORE deadline, but arrived with FIFA 14 SECONDS AFTER midnight. Negotiations ongoing.
http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/s...news/live-leicester-city-transfer-news-430489
#lcfc paperwork for Adrien Silva was sent seconds BEFORE deadline, but arrived with FIFA 14 SECONDS AFTER midnight. Negotiations ongoing.