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horseman
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When you say the 'timing of it' I don't really get that. It's not an open transfer window all year round, there are essentially two or three months out of 12 when you can do business so any successful, right minded manager must know that there's a risk his players are going to be sought after. Add to the fact that the very vast majority of transfers are done late in a window too why has KR got such a massive beef about this ? He's said numerous times about the model we are, I just do not get it.
He should take his frustration out on Brentford if it's about timing. What's Tiger meant to do, phone around every club in the country on January 1st and say if you want our players then hurry up ? How the hell can he control an incoming bid at the eleventh hour ? Acceptable bid comes in, it fits the model we all know about, so where has Tiger f***** up ? You can't say we haven't reinvested or, at the very least, tried hard to. The Cadden, O'Donnell and Grigg bids appear to be open knowledge. We are three players heavier in terms of numbers and Woodburn due to return.
A club owner cannot control a bid for his player and if he turns that acceptable bid away, and in doing so risks scuppering it altogether with loss of form or injury, then the model that has brought us success to date isn't worth the paper it's written on. You either have the model - and deal with it - or you don't.
Timing = not only near the end of the window but was done whilst promotion was calling and the feel good factor was back at the club and could have waited a few short months..The Owner cannot control the bid but he can reject it at such a time and think of the bigger picture..the injury example is folly because if it happened then he would just as easily sold Dickie or Brannagan if we failed to go up. it is also dumb of the club to then see we did not have to sell we chose too yet we had unbudgeted for income from the cup runs. What was the 3m against potential income from the Championship? also why sell to a club in the very league you aspire to be in thus strengthening them and weakening yourself.
Tranmere did not just accept they would be relegated they did something about it, Ipswich made it clear that 7m wouldn't get a player others were after Sunderland made it clear they would not sell to a promotion rival.
no stiff upper lip from our board grab the money and now have to come out with more rhetoric and spin.