Quote Originally Posted by Optimistic Nick View Post
God no. I am openly clutching at straws here!

I am just pointing out that there is some logic to leaving things as late as possible. Sure you risk someone else nipping in, but if you went first that would happen anyway. As I say - employing ebay tactics. But you would hope that "main targets", assuming we are organised enough to have them, would be prioritised and dealt with early preseason.
For me I always think its a bit like being in a chain when buying a house, you are waiting for the club you are buying from to get their target from another club who are waiting for something else. All this gets a move on late on when they have no choice but to move. Agents play a part, the players themselves may change their mind. Really you need a fraction of the window, most of it is just pointless. Parkinson's law.