If I worked in the 'transfers dept.' at MCFC...

[shaundickov]

I would be busting my balls trying to sign either Kaka, Aguero or David Villa, and throwing the press off the scent with bids for the likes of Parker and Bellamy, and RSC. I would be working so hard to do this that all transfer activity would go quiet for a few days.

Why?

As soon as someone like Kaka signs on the dotted line, it will open the floodgates. Good squad backup players will be beating our door down asking us to sign them. Suddenly the media who thought (maybe rightly) that Robinho was a fluke will sit up and take notice. The likes of Benzema will want to join the new revolution. Yaya Toure will have no bones about making the switch.

The club would be absolutely transformed overnight.

But these huge deals, 'surprises' as Cook called them, DONT happen overnight - they take lots of work behind the scenes, and can take a lot of time.

 

[laserblue]

and how is life in la la land?

 

[sam221985]

transformed overnight is an exaggeration but it would definitely give us more of a 'draw' to get other quality players more easily, no doubt about it.

 

[tommcfc]

I would be busting my balls trying to sign either Kaka, Aguero or David Villa, and throwing the press off the scent with bids for the likes of Parker and Bellamy, and RSC. I would be working so hard to do this that all transfer activity would go quiet for a few days.
Why?

As soon as someone like Kaka signs on the dotted line, it will open the floodgates. Good squad backup players will be beating our door down asking us to sign them. Suddenly the media who thought (maybe rightly) that Robinho was a fluke will sit up and take notice. The likes of Benzema will want to join the new revolution. Yaya Toure will have no bones about making the switch.

The club would be absolutely transformed overnight.

But these huge deals, 'surprises' as Cook called them, DONT happen overnight - they take lots of work behind the scenes, and can take a lot of time.

how do you know thats not what they're already doing?

 

[bizzbo]

it's a balancing act because you might find it rather hard to negotiate realistic fees and wages if you'd just spent 80m on one player

 

[johnmc]

What do you buy your shit from dude?

 

[Ducado]

I would be busting my balls trying to sign either Kaka, Aguero or David Villa, and throwing the press off the scent with bids for the likes of Parker and Bellamy, and RSC. I would be working so hard to do this that all transfer activity would go quiet for a few days.
Why?

As soon as someone like Kaka signs on the dotted line, it will open the floodgates. Good squad backup players will be beating our door down asking us to sign them. Suddenly the media who thought (maybe rightly) that Robinho was a fluke will sit up and take notice. The likes of Benzema will want to join the new revolution. Yaya Toure will have no bones about making the switch.

The club would be absolutely transformed overnight.

But these huge deals, 'surprises' as Cook called them, DONT happen overnight - they take lots of work behind the scenes, and can take a lot of time.

how do you know thats not what they're already doing?

hmmmmmmmmmmm it does make you think they are up to something

 

[CBlue]

...I would take all my holiday entitlement in January of every year.

 

[S04]

If I worked in the 'transfers dept.' at MCFC...

You´d be called a WUM here...

 

[CooperMcfcF/W]

you'd get laid off...lol