27-05-2022, 12:35 PM
(27-05-2022, 11:38 AM)bluebollox Wrote:(27-05-2022, 09:46 AM)DeepBlue Wrote: Not announcing signings until the 10th makes absolute sense. It stops other clubs being alerted and trying to nick them.
In the meantime let the papers speculate at random. I wouldn't be at all surprsied if several of the new signings we get during the window do not get a mention in the News before they are announced, like last summer.
Hmmm, how about pre contract agreements like other clubs are doing? That would certainly stop other clubs nicking them. Lets hope we've learned lessons from recent years when xfer targets have been missed.
You don't know that we have not done any pre-contract arrangements, but they are not totally binding so it doesn't stop other clubs trying to nick them. Until a deal is completed after June 10th anything can happen, otherwise the transfer window would be meaningless.
Keeping quiet about targets and deals is the best lesson we can have learnt from previous seasons - not that it is possible to keep everything quiet from the players's agents end and the press will always get some of the stories in advance.