arise_sir_charge wrote: ↑Fri Jan 14, 2022 8:22 am
Never understood this point.
If the logic of this was correct every club would be trying to sign every player.
Clues identify different players that fit their requirements all the time. Because Newcastle haven’t found anybody doesn’t mean to say no other clubs can.
No it doesn’t but time is a key factor here and we don’t have it. It may be that we do have players identified, but are they available now? Maybe we planned for the summer, we obviously didn’t expect to lose Wood like we have so we’re in a position where we need something now, not 6 months time.
Newcastle had the advantage with how much money they can throw at a situation. £25m for Chris Wood is an extraordinary amount to pay, if you just look at the player in isolation. The wider context obviously changes that somewhat.
I’m not saying what applies for one club applies to all. Far from it. Newcastle had a limited amount of time to identify a target and a much bigger budget to do so. And they signed Chris Wood. We now have even less time, a smaller budget, and everyone now knows we’re desperate. Whatever recruitment plans we had for forward department clearly don’t apply now. Otherwise we wouldn’t be getting linked with Carroll.
