Quote Originally Posted by Des Parrot View Post
Of course it's that easy. They've had 6 months to prepare. Whether we like it or not it's a business. I've just spent 6 months preparing a £30M investment because I knew it was required in January. I didn't wait until January an then think that I better start looking at it. The club has improved immeasurably in the last 2 years but this is still an area of weakness and amateurism.

Thanks for "melts", had to Google it.
You’re chatting absolute rubbish though, obviously they’ve been looking for months, the links to 2 of these players were in papers way before Christmas.

Unfortunately it isn’t like going into a shop and buying something there has to be agreements between both clubs and the player and agent.

City would ideally wanted to have this sorted on the 1st but I imagine the selling club and player will not because a better offer may come along.

You’re looking at it too simplistically.