Tuesday, 23 January 2007
Transfer window Blanco
Let’s play a game. What do these names have in common?
Pressley
Fagan
Stokes
Kepa Blanco
Davids
Bougherra
and about 10 others that weren’t leaked to the press.
Now we know that Richard Murray negotiates the cash, Alan Pardew targets the candidate and interviews them with Murray, scouts watch them on cold Tuesday nights. And then Andrew Mills does…. what exactly?
I’ve been keeping my beady eyes on this ‘general manager – football’ since the summer, which frankly is difficult when I don’t know what he looks like and none of us know how he fits into the infamous managerial structure.
What we do know is that Roy Keane, Brian Laws and the Hibernian manager have each made public their displeasure at the way we have gone about our transfer dealings this month. Perhaps Mills was the one who sent the fax to the chairman of Sheffield Wednesday? Agreed, not necessarily the wrong way of going about it but certainly a way to alienate their manager, someone Mills, as an ex-agent, would know as someone one needs to get onside if you are to maximize ones bargaining power.
It never used to be like this did it? In fact we hardly ever knew who Murray’s targets were until we signed them.
I appreciate we are not the most fantastic opportunity in professional football land at the moment and it must be hard selling a player a deal when his salary will be halved next season. This combined with the complete slaughtering the media have given us plus our managerial merry-go-round of cock up proportions, which has undone 15 years of good karma, means it is bloody difficult to add quality to the squad. I’ll have one of whatever Reg Varney was smoking when he announced before Christmas that players were lining up down Floyd Road to join us. Er, how about bollocks?
With 8 days left, we've got a Chinese bloke, whose shirt costs £51, a young lad back from Ipswich, at least we think he's back because he hasn’t got anywhere near the first team squad yet and a reformed thug at left back – better than a reformed agent I suppose!
I’ve taken the Inspector Sands vow now and am not going to worry about it, just lie back and let it happen, just like I did when Clive Mendonca came into my life! ¶ 16:18
Pressley
Fagan
Stokes
Kepa Blanco
Davids
Bougherra
and about 10 others that weren’t leaked to the press.
Now we know that Richard Murray negotiates the cash, Alan Pardew targets the candidate and interviews them with Murray, scouts watch them on cold Tuesday nights. And then Andrew Mills does…. what exactly?
I’ve been keeping my beady eyes on this ‘general manager – football’ since the summer, which frankly is difficult when I don’t know what he looks like and none of us know how he fits into the infamous managerial structure.
What we do know is that Roy Keane, Brian Laws and the Hibernian manager have each made public their displeasure at the way we have gone about our transfer dealings this month. Perhaps Mills was the one who sent the fax to the chairman of Sheffield Wednesday? Agreed, not necessarily the wrong way of going about it but certainly a way to alienate their manager, someone Mills, as an ex-agent, would know as someone one needs to get onside if you are to maximize ones bargaining power.
It never used to be like this did it? In fact we hardly ever knew who Murray’s targets were until we signed them.
I appreciate we are not the most fantastic opportunity in professional football land at the moment and it must be hard selling a player a deal when his salary will be halved next season. This combined with the complete slaughtering the media have given us plus our managerial merry-go-round of cock up proportions, which has undone 15 years of good karma, means it is bloody difficult to add quality to the squad. I’ll have one of whatever Reg Varney was smoking when he announced before Christmas that players were lining up down Floyd Road to join us. Er, how about bollocks?
With 8 days left, we've got a Chinese bloke, whose shirt costs £51, a young lad back from Ipswich, at least we think he's back because he hasn’t got anywhere near the first team squad yet and a reformed thug at left back – better than a reformed agent I suppose!
I’ve taken the Inspector Sands vow now and am not going to worry about it, just lie back and let it happen, just like I did when Clive Mendonca came into my life! ¶ 16:18
