AbsolutelyFearless wrote:Tonteg Bluebird wrote:AbsolutelyFearless wrote:Tonteg Bluebird wrote:ihatealiens wrote:Chip shop Alley wrote:Interesting. Is this plan B?
No he's very much plan "A" apparently. I was hearing that we were going in strong for Cornelius more than a month before we signed him. Am hearing the same now about Valon Berisha - fingers crossed on this lad, he's pretty special. Do we want old has beens looking for their last big pay day or talented gifted youngsters with something to prove and a stage to perform in the Premier League?
As much as I'm sure we all appreciate your post, this could potentially alert other clubs who previously knew nothing about the player. Unless you know this player has already signed for us, I don't understand why you have posted this as this can only jeopardise our chances of signing him surely? You've just said we are going in strong for him, another club could be keeping tabs on him and now they've read your post, they'll step up their interest to stop us being able to get him on the quiet. Some people may laugh and say "it's only a messageboard", but people will be taking a lot more interest in us now we are a Premiership club.
Yes im sure scouts at top clubs knew nothing about him
But if top clubs want him, they would put in a bid and we would not have any chance of getting him anyway would we.
listen to yourself mun.
Listen to myself? The top clubs have the scouting network to be aware of every young talent coming through. We are not a top club and teams like ourselves need to go for players within our range which the top clubs don't particularly feel they need, simply because they already have better, more experienced players.
Teams which are not top clubs do not have the scouting network a top club has because of finances and these teams are going to be less aware of some of the talent coming through. These are the teams we are competing with for players and the last thing we want to do is make teams aware of a special looking talent we are going for. Like I say, another team "on the same level as us" could be monitoring this player. All I am saying is it would have been better if we carried on with our business quietly and tried to sign him without revealing anything to alert others.