Harry Kane

[domalino]

Sounds like normal negotiations them.

Well good, if you're happy having players come in late and have no preseason with the team I hope I don't see you whining about performances if/when we drop points in August and September then.

 

[citizen_maine]

I think we have a long record of delaying transfers over tiny differences in fees. Sterling, KDB, Walker, Mendy and Stones are all players who come to mind where we spent all summer on the deals only to pay within a few million of the original asking price weeks earlier.

We managed to end up paying more than the asking price for Walker because after spending a month trying to haggle him down from 45m Levy raised his fee to match Mendy's £50 after we bought him.

Your edit to this acknowledges that the 'haggling' can save us money on occasion.

Also Dias only became available very late in the window and we moved pretty quickly to secure him from memory

 

[domalino]

Your edit to this acknowledges that the 'haggling' can save us money on occasion.

Also Dias only became available very late in the window and we moved pretty quickly to secure him from memory

Who said anything about Dias?

 

[leo_city]

Well good, if you're happy having players come in late and have no preseason with the team I hope I don't see you whining about performances if/when we drop points in August and September then.

Players don't come in late on purpose, some negotiations take more time than others. I don't get why you are frustrated with that, it's normal procedure, you wouldn't overpay for something after committing to your previous word would you? If it's 10m and someone at the end asks 15m you wouldn't just say yeah fuck it why not? also, with the amount of football our main targets have played there's hardly a need for pre-season. They can just come in and play/adapt like Dias did last season.

 

[domalino]

Players don't come in late on purpose, some negotiations take more time than others. I don't get why you are frustrated with that, it's normal procedure, you wouldn't overpay for something after committing to your previous word would you? If it's 10m and someone at the end asks 15m you wouldn't just say yeah fuck it why not? also, with the amount of football our main targets have played there's hardly a need for pre-season. They can just come in and play/adapt like Dias did last season.

I really don't think I can have been more clear.

I think the upper management has a poor habit of spending too long negotiating to save insignificant amounts of money which help the club a lot less than getting signings in training and part of the squad a month earlier, not to mention playing in the first games of the season.


I hope they're not doing the same again after seeing how damaging starting the season with an incomplete squad can be last season.


You're seemingly completely fine with transfers taking all summer and into the season in order to save an amount that's likely <1% of the club's annual revenue, and so I'm sure you won't be complaining come August if having no striker costs us in the first few games and we end up trailing in the title race.

 

[citizen_maine]

Who said anything about Dias?

You did, in the post I first responded to

 

[philjoneswho?]

We dropped 5 points last season because Dias arrived late.

I hope the club isn't going to make the same mistake again with it's transfer business because we're unlikely to get away with cheaply chucking away points at the start of the season again.

I’d argue we’re in a better situation right now than we were at the start of last season but fair point all the same. It’s always better to have your targets early

 

[leo_city]

I really don't think I can have been more clear.

I think the club has a poor habit of spending too long negotiating to save insignificant amounts of money which help the club a lot less than getting signings in training and part of the squad a month earlier.


I hope they're not doing the same again after seeing how damaging starting the season with an incomplete squad can be last season.

Fair enough, but there's context here though isn't it? We would be breaking a few transfer records to get in a player to replace Aguero, hardly easy negotiations especially with a guy like Levy at helm. I'm sure the club would like to have it sorted as early as possible too, they know more about the importance of these things than us.

 

[mccity]

Everyone worth listening to reported they wanted £45m from day 1, we spent 6 weeks trying to get it lower before paying £49m after Levy saw us pay £50m for Mendy.

Didn't us missing out on Alves start the knock on effect with us then being made to overpay for Mendy which meant Walker cost more too?

 

[decmancity]

Far too easy to just say that it is City dragging their heels.

For all we know we have deals signed and sealed for Grealish and Kane but both Villa and spuds want time to bring in the replacement, we are happy to oblige because neither would be in pre-season training anyway and their current clubs are paying the wages.