ronk wrote:I've been hopeful that we wouldn't act that way in the transfer market and so far we've mostly lived up to my hopes. The only real instances of controversy involving us that I can think of came from the signing of Helan and Lescott. The Helan signing is down to a quirk in the French academy rules and we've been relatively well behaved, AFAIK we've been exonerated too. Lescott was just Everton making noise as a negotiating tactic and a sop for their own fans. I don't think they would have kept him at that price, it has a lot in parallel with us and SWP. We all knew the club needed the money but there was a way to delude ourselves that the club wasn't cashing in on a prize asset and that the player wanted to leave. Other than that clubs have been pretty happy with how we've conducted business.
Supposedly we signed that Rekik kid from Feyenoord, who are up in arms about it and are looking into proceedings, as supposedly he was spoken to, either his agent, or us, before he turned 16, which in the Netherlands is illegal. They have lost several kids in the last 2-3 years, so it is understandable they're pissed off about this.
So yeah, we might hear from this some more at some point.