Christian Purslow

[dom9]

I think the business side of things is more efficient now.

It's maybe harsh on Parry etc but I feel like if we'd have kept the old structure we would have sold Alonso a fortnight ago for £25m and then spent £15m on Cattermole on deadline day.

Yanks out!

[Exiled_red]

Isn't Purslow only doing the job until we find someone else? (I thought I read he was only doing it temporarily)

[-V-]

Purslow has done well for himself as a deal-maker. He's known a solid negotiater who gets things done. Parry was a diddling accountant who took an age to get the simplest things resolved. You could just see from Parrys body language that he was too chilled

[Morse]

Not meaning to belittle what effect Purslow has had but surely the good work was done when Alonso signed a new contract 2 years ago

Alonso was widely regarded to have been one of the top performers in the EPL last year.... the biggest league on the planet

He was wanted by a team whom has gone on an unprecedented purchasing program

Madrid were in massive need of a player in the Alonso mold to make their record transfers actual work

Madrid were under pressure to get more Spanish players

The new manger and technical director highlighted Alonso as their prime target

The president failed last time because he didn’t purchase the players Madrid needed but purchased marketable ones

Perez had to buy Alonso, I’m not saying we got a bad price or indeed that we never got a good one but that this will not be the most difficult piece of work the Rafa and Purslow will have to do

Agree with this, but what the hell is Mold?

[Parm]

Rafa is telling Purslow what he wants and what he wants to Pay/Charge and Purslow is
going out and getting it done and doing a very good job at it imo.

yup and we arent getting ****ed on the prices
we've just sold a guy for 30-35 mill who we were willing to let go for 18mill last year
and bought a younger player who was subject to a 30mill bid from Inter last summer for up to 20mill,
all in the space of 48hours.