I understand your point but you don’t appear willing to understand Bob’s. Could it be that pre-covid these players may have had their contracts renewed (or are do you think they were ready for the football scrapheap?).Originally Posted by The Lone Gunman
If we’d tried to sign them all when they had 12 or 13 months on their deals do you think the clubs would have just let them go for free (of course that would have been a possibility) or would they have commanded a fee.
If what we read is true, many of the players we’ve signed had multiple offers to consider. In a world where they still had contracts that strikes me as a plausible reason why their previous clubs would probably have been able to command a fee for their services. I suspect the club knew the contracts were winding down and had engaged the players many months ago… sort of a bit like the situation we had with Flint, a £5m defender on a big contract who clubs likely wanted at this level but were prepared to wait out his contract rather than pay a fee during the last 12 months of his deal.
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