Negligent?

It's not like Football Manager or Fifa 20xx, you don't have a budget of £X and the market supplies choices of players all of whom will sign for you if you pay enough of your £X for them. It's much more fluid and complex than that, and players and their agents are real people, not objects you can buy and sell like furniture.

If we don't get a DCCDM and a CB I've no doubt Stuart Webber and his team will be at least as disappointed as me about it. Completely valid to share and vocalise that disappointment, we surely all feel it quite deeply.

But is there evidence that they haven't tried hard enough, or have neglected these positions in their efforts? Literally no club has a 100% transfer success rate, either in terms of securing their targets or in terms of their targets working out once signed. I tend to think we punch a bit above our weight - our resource constraints force us to work that bit smarter - but literally no club will have secured everything they're after, and it's not negligence, just the real world.

Posted By: Old Man on August 28th 2021 at 11:03:47

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Busy four days ahead for Webber. The two most important positions to fill. No pressure (n/m) (NCFC) - thirsty work, Aug 28, 07:41:20
- don't expect anybody of any note to come in (n/m) (NCFC) - ghostof barry butler, Aug 28, 08:21:16
  - It will be negligent if they don’t sign a holding midfielder (n/m) (NCFC) - Jim, Aug 28, 08:31:52
    - Negligent? (NCFC) - Old Man, Aug 28, 11:03:47
      - Heh, yeah (NCFC) - Cardiff Canary, Aug 28, 11:43:41
    - All depends though :- (NCFC) - colincanary, Aug 28, 09:35:20
    - Having Skipp last season showed us how important that role is. It was the priority signing (NCFC) - thirsty work, Aug 28, 09:16:49
    - what would be more negligent (NCFC) - Henclrikus, Aug 28, 08:41:34
      - Yes there are no defensive midfielders we can sign anywhere in the world (NCFC) - Jim, Aug 28, 10:31:39
      - Would be pretty poor not to find anyone able to improve us when we wasted weeks … (NCFC) - loz, Aug 28, 09:07:10
        
        Not convinced that Billing was our DFM plan (NCFC) - Cardiff Canary, Aug 28, 10:02:36
        
        so we should ignore our budget & player-valuation (NCFC) - Henclrikus, Aug 28, 09:23:01
        
        We spent 5M on a reserve keeper. A bit hard to take if we’ve no funds left for a position (NCFC) - thirsty work, Aug 28, 09:30:50
        
        £5m is cheap in today’s market. (NCFC) - lurd, Aug 28, 11:29:51
        
        Ramalamadingdong (NCFC) - APB, Aug 28, 11:59:06
        
        He is not just a reserve though. He is likely Krul’s replacement. (n/m) (NCFC) - Henclrikus, Aug 28, 11:01:07
        
        Indeed (NCFC) - Cardiff Canary, Aug 28, 11:04:31
        
        Yep we’ve needed a decent Cb and DCM all summer… (NCFC) - loz, Aug 28, 11:08:50
        
        Yes, and no (NCFC) - Cardiff Canary, Aug 28, 11:41:50
        
        Not sure that the algebra of that is right (NCFC) - Cardiff Canary, Aug 28, 10:24:26
        
        hard to disagree with that (n/m) (NCFC) - shoddy, Aug 28, 09:58:01
        
        We shouldn’t spend weeks trying to sign a player… (NCFC) - loz, Aug 28, 09:29:02
        
        Just being in Harrods (NCFC) - Henclrikus, Aug 28, 10:58:41
        
        ❌❌❌📣🔞🚨🚨🚨Muff warning!!! (n/m) (NCFC) - APB, Aug 28, 09:17:54
      - ^^^ VMT^^^^ (n/m) (NCFC) - ghostof barry butler, Aug 28, 08:54:59
  - You joking? Pretty clear Farke is desperate for a midfielder especially. He was mentioning (NCFC) - thirsty work, Aug 28, 08:27:48
    - see the reply from Hencirikus (NCFC) - ghostof barry butler, Aug 28, 08:57:32

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