i see skies of blue
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A lot of talk on here, and in the Media, about our potential business dealings on and off the field this summer. How much of this is going to be played out in the media and how much will be done under the radar?
The owners seem like restrained people and I would guess they would prefer things to be conducted quietly, only going public with a done deal. The Kaka thing in January seems to prove my point, 4 months worth of work done very quietly (according to Cook), and it was only in the last week when Milan started leaking to the press that things went wrong. Berlusconi was on the phone to his own TV station 2mins after we backed down claiming the high ground and we ended up looking very stupid... Have we learned from this and will we be more media-savy as a result?
Is it only going to be A-listers we're going to persue, or will we find another Vincent Kompany (for example) on the quiet, who wasn't that well known but has turned out to be a class signing? I remember Svens deals, for all his links with agents and the media, seemed to be concluded with the minimum of fuss, and we only knew they were signing for us when they turned up for a medical, when you would expect the opposite to have been true.
The owners seem like restrained people and I would guess they would prefer things to be conducted quietly, only going public with a done deal. The Kaka thing in January seems to prove my point, 4 months worth of work done very quietly (according to Cook), and it was only in the last week when Milan started leaking to the press that things went wrong. Berlusconi was on the phone to his own TV station 2mins after we backed down claiming the high ground and we ended up looking very stupid... Have we learned from this and will we be more media-savy as a result?
Is it only going to be A-listers we're going to persue, or will we find another Vincent Kompany (for example) on the quiet, who wasn't that well known but has turned out to be a class signing? I remember Svens deals, for all his links with agents and the media, seemed to be concluded with the minimum of fuss, and we only knew they were signing for us when they turned up for a medical, when you would expect the opposite to have been true.