He had the whole summer to sign a striker. We only moved for Suarez towards the end of the window.Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn
He had the whole summer to sign a striker. We only moved for Suarez towards the end of the window.
We don't know the details for sure but it appears we had Higuain lined up, our early window activity, then a better option surfaced, our late window activity. Looks like we sacrificed Higuain to pursue Suarez. Also Higuain's price kept going up as I recall. We ended up with neither. A fuck up in some respects but certainly not an indication of a lack of ambition. Seems we were being as ambitious as it was possible to be.
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It shouldn't take 1-2 months to sign someone, if you want them you offer the money, if it's turned down you either make a bigger bid or move on.
Why do you make a bigger bid when there is a clause in a contract specifying what you need to bid? Henry dishonoured the contract, obviously he was intent to use any means to tie Suarez to Liverpool. Plus, unlike some, we have to earn the money we spend so there are limits.
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Well we didn't know that for sure (if we did then we should have taken legal action), but if you're not going to then just move on and find someone else, we spend months chasing players and often end up with nothing, at the end of the day if you need a striker and one isn't realistically going to come because he's too expensive or he wants to move elsewhere you don't site around and wait.
We didn't have to sign Suarez, there were other players available which would have improved us and having failed to sign him we should have made sure we signed one, we have the resources.
Personally I think we should take Liverpool to court on this, not to get Suarez (we won't) but out of principle, if true then they've broken the rules and should be punished accordingly.
I've had enough of being in the same place every season now, if it happens once, twice maybe three times you can't put it down to bad luck, but after 8 almost 9 years of it it's not down to bad luck anymore, it's down to the person who builds the team, sets the tactics and chooses the team, I don't really understand how we can continually fail every single time it really matters.
I don't. Bottom line is if Suarez has accepted it then ultimately there's no case to answer. The only lot who can make a fuss about this now are the authorities because this sets a precedent that throws everything since Bosman into the air.
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Yeah he did, plenty of strikers flying around last summer, we seem to sit on our arses for 3 months and then decide it's time to do something last minute. If you can't find a decent striker in 3 months you're doing something wrong.
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