- Mar 7, 2005
- 9,018
- 6,900
I think this agian shows the need to buy early, yes we bought a couple early on, but once again we left our best signings too late - and especially if they are not native speakers and from other leagues. Surly we knew who that our targets would be of this type, so once again we left it too late - If they had all come in around the same time or even before Soldado we could have hit the ground running, maybe even beat or at least drawn with the ARSE.
I know people will say football isn't like that and to get the price you wont there is a lot of negotiation - sorry but seems to me, we paid top dollar for all of our players this year, so for me that is BS, we were just to slow again.
It's not only about best price but because buying a player is like buying a house; there's a chain, with each club trying to secure a replacement before letting their man go. In the case of Roma they didn't have a replacement until near the end of the window, just as we didn't for Bale and so wouldn't let him go either. Which highlights a further point: the higher up the chain you are the longer you'll usually have to wait.
All of which is why I think we're wrong to think of player purchases merely in the context of the coming season.