Henrikh Mkhitaryan

[The_weatherman]

If he goes to Dortmund we'll sign someone else. Its clearly a complicated deal. Hopefully we are a bit quicker next time and can manage to keep the next player we go for under wraps until a deal is in place.

I don't know what its like for other clubs this summer but seemingly every player we go for is leaked to the media from somewhere.Be nice to do stuff quietly.

This.

[Kenneth]

G, are you suggesting Dortmund got involved because they heard media reports about us being interested? I'm struggling to see how the media rumours make any difference at all to this, apart from setting the expectations of fans who read too much into speculation

[BigChief]

Where's that Petrosyan bloke?

[cream]

Seems the Independant were spot on with their reporting, looks like Miki Ryan always had his heart set on a move to Dortmund.

[baitman]

henry micky :candle:


**** him, **** monobrow ******, **** anyway

[Daffy Duck]

Mata, Phil Jones, Sigurdsson... Mkhitaryan, it's like this every year. It's normal to be disappointed, but not at all surprised.

[Arn]

We may only be a few days into the window but not a single club will sell one of their best players the last couple of weeks of the window.

That means that it is very little time to sort out a deal for another top class player.

As already been mentioned, it don't take a week or two to sort out a deal for a top class player if you don't offer a massive amount of money.

[G]

G, are you suggesting Dortmund got involved because they heard media reports about us being interested?

No Spurs do that

No I'd just like us to get deals done under wraps,as was pointed out by someone with the Shelvey deal,2 days and done.I'm sure there was negotiating done before they lodged their bid regarding acceptable fee's but we never heard about it. The first time deals should hit the news is when the negotiating is over and we know what the club will accept.We then make that bid and it becomes public knowledge.

I'm not sure how realistic that is these days though and maybe every other club is having the same issues as us regarding leaks.

[Kenneth]

Mata, Phil Jones, Sigurdsson... Mkhitaryan, it's like this every year. It's normal to be disappointed, but not at all surprised.

If only there weren't hundreds of other football clubs in the world looking for players too eh

[The_weatherman]

G, are you suggesting Dortmund got involved because they heard media reports about us being interested? I'm struggling to see how the media rumours make any difference at all to this, apart from setting the expectations of fans who read too much into speculation

I think Rafa read it in the papers that Momo was heading to Everton and jumped in at the last minute.

[cream]

We may only be a few days into the window but not a single club will sell one of their best players the last couple of weeks of the window.

That means that it is very little time to sort out a deal for another top class player.

As already been mentioned, it don't take a week or two to sort out a deal for a top class player if you don't offer a massive amount of money.

Oh no, what are we gonna do

[BigChief]

Out of those three I'm glad we didn't get two for the money quoted. So there's a high percentage (yeah I'm lazy too work it out ) that Mickey may not be all that.

[The_weatherman]

If only there weren't hundreds of other football clubs in the world looking for players too eh

Hence acting swiftly Just to be clear I do not hold a grudge against Ayre nor do I think this is a sackable offence!

[Daffy Duck]

If only there weren't hundreds of other football clubs in the world looking for players too eh

There's just as many good players though...
My only question is, are we really looking to spend something in the region of £20m - £30m for a top player without selling our own.

[Arn]

I doubt that Dortmund only negotiated a month. It wouldn't surprise me if they started negotiating straight after Gotze agreed a deal with Bayern.