Of course that would happen, it's surely couldn't have been a surprise to anyone that clubs will up the asking fee when we have just banked a minimum of £3million quid.

I would hope that we would do the same if roles are ever reversed.

They club are incompetent on the recruitment front and the league and financial positions back it up.

We have went backwards, not forward and I have some sympathy now with our yes man the picks the team on a Saturday.

When it finally dropped to that numbskull that prices/costs had jumped up he should have blocked the Tony Watt deal and concentrated all his efforts into getting a sub goalie in order at least hold the pish poor quality of the current squad.

Finally I would say fans are not frustrated they are more concerned and terrified at the current situation.  We watched this movie in 2016 and we all know how it ends.

To finish Always, I hope something changes in the coming days hopefully tonight. We can't as supporters especially at this point start a war with the board and owners, now is not the time.

Fuck that going back down, no chance. We need to all be behind the 11 guys that wear our club colours, it's not there fault they have been as badly let down as us by that window.

I am sure we will get behind the players, no doubt in my mind and when the time is right hopefully after safety is assured then we can start pointing fingers.

AlwaysUnited wrote:

A lot of fans are understandably upset about the lack of incoming signings.

What if I told you the number one hindrance was the reported £3 million development fee for Harry Souttar. I believe the club had agreements lined up for several really cracking players, that collapsed at the last minute due to increased demands.

Maybe worth reflecting on.

 

And if your auntie had baws she'd be your uncle.

Irrelevant.

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AlwaysUnited wrote:

A lot of fans are understandably upset about the lack of incoming signings.

What if I told you the number one hindrance was the reported £3 million development fee for Harry Souttar. I believe the club had agreements lined up for several really cracking players, that collapsed at the last minute due to increased demands.

Maybe worth reflecting on.

Are you telling us or are you just making up more shite?  Why write it in that manner if it were actually true.  I'm willing to believe that we couldn't do much until the Souttar cash was assured.  I'm also willing to believe that we had some targets (what else do the 4 strong recruitment team do if we didn't!).  What I am not willing to believe is that we were ready to press the button but the clubs of all these 'really cracking players' all decided at the same time to up the ante and we couldn't convince even one of them to part with a player that they had presumably previously decided they were going to let go.  Even if that were true, a truly competent recruitment team would have had a plan B - they would have perhaps tried to get some business done earlier.  The Huddersfield boy surely didn't need to be a deadline day signing.  

You are still pretending to have inside info, which I doubt.  If I am wrong and you do then you continue to be totally gullible and believe the Fat Controllers bullshit.  Whilst you might be stupid, the fans are not.  There is no excuse for that window given that it has totally depleted the squad and left us with a team that will take us down.

Asghar out

kiwiarab wrote:

AlwaysUnited wrote:

A lot of fans are understandably upset about the lack of incoming signings.

What if I told you the number one hindrance was the reported £3 million development fee for Harry Souttar. I believe the club had agreements lined up for several really cracking players, that collapsed at the last minute due to increased demands.

Maybe worth reflecting on.

Can you outline why the club waited until the last minute to get deals signed?

We have known since January 2022 that we need a reliable keeper, and a defensive central midfielder.




 

 
I don't know, you would need to ask someone at the club that question.

As a rule, many deals are done at the last minute though, as the selling club have their own transactions to conclude.

What happened to this supposed list of prospective players we had - did we make enquiries on any of them before the window opened or wait until the last minute?

AlwaysUnited wrote:

A lot of fans are understandably upset about the lack of incoming signings.

What if I told you the number one hindrance was the reported £3 million development fee for Harry Souttar. I believe the club had agreements lined up for several really cracking players, that collapsed at the last minute due to increased demands.

Maybe worth reflecting on.

You don't post mirror selfies and generic 'Live, Laugh, Love' type quotes on Twitter per chance, do you? 
 

Billy_Hainey wrote:

The only hindrance I could see we the Souttar fee, is that we're no getting it in a one-er, and we're getting it in monthly instalments over a long period instead.

Thoughts ?

It's been gross mismanagement for the past few years Billy, where we have racked up a crazy amount of debt through giving out contracts that even the dogs in the street new were bonkers.

However the current ownership get the 3 million its nothing but a bonus to them, quite simply they have won the jackpot.

On the plus side an ex owner must be spewing.

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