SissokoWasGood (BoL)
Terry Venables
Ok. I understand what you are saying about Greslish specifically. But does it not strike you as a bit of a repeated pattern that we never seem to win the competitive deal for the proven player?Him and his old man were as much stalling the deal as anyone, that was the point, he wanted to play in a game as a good bye and was under pressure in the background before the new people came in. There was lots going on a alot of noise around him playing with his emotions, loyalty and head.........it does happen you know despite everyone making out transfers are purely transactional for everyone.
Anyway I said it when it happened have said it again today and TBH can't be bothered going over old ground like some love to. So will leave it there.
And I’m not saying I don’t understand that there are sometimes reasons for that, our strategy, our constraints etc. I am saying though that it is a repeated pattern. And we COULD do things a bit differently without bankrupting the club. Especially in the example of Grealish, if we were willing to offer 30m at the end of the cycle, clearly we could have offered it earlier and it wouldn’t have thrown our whole sustainability into question.