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Ionman34

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What impresses me about this recruitment is that the deal has been done and everything signed in advance of the transfer window even opening, even though it can't be fully formalised or ratified till January. I'd hope we as a club would do the same with our targets rather than dragging on negotiations right until the end of the transfer window (like Dybala or Moutinho), to be more proactive in bringing in pre-identified targets rather than waiting opportunistically to see who might come available.
For players of that sort of value we have got it across the line quickly. It's the more expensive players, with likely more complicated contracts, that we have taken our time with.
 

Wig

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Wasn't VDV a deadline day signing? Exactly symbolising our transfer strategy that I said in my last post of "waiting opportunistically to see who might come available"? This is the opposite of Liverpool identifying a player and signing him before the window even opens.
 

Ionman34

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Wasn't VDV a deadline day signing? Exactly symbolising our transfer strategy that I said in my last post of "waiting opportunistically to see who might come available"? This is the opposite of Liverpool identifying a player and signing him before the window even opens.
It was one we got across the line quickly for a similar amount of money. He was offered late and we snapped him up.

Agreed though, he wasn't one we identified early, he just demonstrates that we can do the deal quickly for that sort of money.
 

Bulletspur

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He was a very late signing not an early pre window signing so a very poor example. The original poster suggested that we have done quick and early pre window signings in the past but I cannot recall any.
 

Marty

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He was a very late signing not an early pre window signing so a very poor example. The original poster suggested that we have done quick and early pre window signings in the past but I cannot recall any.
Last one I can remember is Modric, which was done in April.
 
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