ashton287 wrote:Ted Hughes wrote:
There were deals being done behind the scenes last summer.
That doesn't mean that the players sign. It has been the same every summer but sometimes our targets signed. Some players just sign, others play silly buggers or their agents want a bung or they fancy going somewhere else, like Alexis Sanches. But on that occasion we signed Aguero instead.
The strange thing last summer was that we were originally targeting forwards, then suddenly signed centre mids & defenders rather than any alternative forwards other than Sinclair. We will have had a whole shitload of attacking players scouted & contacted.
No idea why the priorities changed.
I don't think we'll see any players til Pellegrini arrives whatever, even if we have signed them already.
I don't think we have signed anyone yet. The club are shit at keeping things quiet and if we had anything done it would be all over the papers and sky about how many billions this takes us up to and how high our wage bill is, FFP and so on and so forth.
I thought they were pretty good at keeping the take over quiet.
And Silva. And Toure. Obviously, you hear about pretty much every big deal in the transfer window before it is signed, but when I heard about the above three things it was only days/hours before confirmation.
Saying that, I do get your point. You'd think in this day and age and with us being the richest club in the world, the people involved would be super secretive. Then again, maybe the leaks are intentional when one club wants to force the final stages.
