05 Oct 2020 15:31:40
Can anybody explain the thinking behind going for players closer to deadline day? Has it got anything to do with some business logic of Woodward and co.? Just can't get my head around it.

We waited the entire window needing reinforcements in multiple positions and on deadline day scrambling around for players and probably over paying for everyone except Telles.


1.) 05 Oct 2020
05 Oct 2020 15:41:41
Maybe you save on wages? let's say we signed Cavani on August 1 then he would already have cost more than 1m in wages?

Maybe that is the more sensible thing for the accountants handling the deals?


2.) 05 Oct 2020
05 Oct 2020 16:04:55
Not sure this is Woodward/ Judges's proactive approach, more reactive to the fact none of the top targets were achievable.


3.) 05 Oct 2020
05 Oct 2020 16:16:18
Deependra, if that's true it's pathetic and probably worse than dishing out new contracts to players we need to move on (increasing the wage bill rather than letting them go or sell them for less) when we really need reinforcements.

And further we get back to our old ways of signing someone like Cavani who is coming to the end of his career and it could go either way. Instead we could have signed a younger striker with great potential in his mid-20s but probably it doesn't help Woodward and co. as they would have to spend a lot more than they would like as well as Cavani being a bigger name enables a lot more sales commercially.


4.) 05 Oct 2020
05 Oct 2020 17:01:31
My reply to the OP was pure guesswork LPU. Don5 take if as gospel.


5.) 05 Oct 2020
05 Oct 2020 17:21:40
Deals closer to deadline makes sense for both sides. You can chase a player and not wanting to pay his full asking price and you try to lower the price etc. But at deadline when the time ends you have to make a desicion because its now or never for the transfer.
Same goes sometimes for the selling club. Porto although they were relaxed about the Telles situation, as we come close to deadline and saw that they couldn't take more money for Telles, they realised that the scenario to leave for free next year is there, is real and its "sell now or he will go for free".
There are negotiations and some teams (like Porto) wants to look in strong position during the negotations and they don't reduse the price, but when you go closer to deadline you face the reality and your negotiating position is not so strong. that's one of reasons transfers take place the last days of the transfer window.


6.) 05 Oct 2020
05 Oct 2020 17:43:05
What is there interest rate on £200 million? Maybe worth sitting on for 2 months? Can't think of any other reason to low ball Dortmund by £20 million and then spend the money?