Unbelievable Jeff Posted 19 September, 2013 Share Posted 19 September, 2013 Geting Osvaldo and Lambert playing together will take time. If we'd had him in for pre-season, we wouldn't be having the problems we have now. It's a shame people at the club didn't realise how important it was to take advantage of our first 4 games of the season. Hope it doesn't come back to bite us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KelvinsRightGlove Posted 19 September, 2013 Share Posted 19 September, 2013 Sign up UJ!! Can't believe no-one at the club thought of this, Saints FC are in dire need of this guys insights! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shirleysfc Posted 19 September, 2013 Share Posted 19 September, 2013 Geting Osvaldo and Lambert playing together will take time. If we'd had him in for pre-season, we wouldn't be having the problems we have now. It's a shame people at the club didn't realise how important it was to take advantage of our first 4 games of the season. Hope it doesn't come back to bite us. Great point - WTF were we doing all summer!!!??!!? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olallana Posted 19 September, 2013 Share Posted 19 September, 2013 Why are (some) people surprised that some transfers can´t be made whenever the buying club wants to do it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bucks Saint Posted 19 September, 2013 Share Posted 19 September, 2013 Great OP. The club honestly thought that the first 4 games would not really count for final table positions, so key people made sure they had a nice long holiday before getting around to buying Dani Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unbelievable Jeff Posted 19 September, 2013 Author Share Posted 19 September, 2013 Ok, it seems people don't agree that integrating a player into the squad early in the Summer is a good idea. Personally I think it is, especially when we were negotiating the transfer from May...perhaps if we knew it was going to take along time to complete we should have set a deadline and moved onto another target perhaps? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmel Posted 19 September, 2013 Share Posted 19 September, 2013 Out yourself on the gay thread - You will get more attention Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitey Grandad Posted 19 September, 2013 Share Posted 19 September, 2013 It can take 3-6 months for a new player to settle in to a club and a team. The big clubs used to buy somebody and you wouldn't see them for half a season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KelvinsRightGlove Posted 19 September, 2013 Share Posted 19 September, 2013 Ok, it seems people don't agree that integrating a player into the squad early in the Summer is a good idea. Personally I think it is, especially when we were negotiating the transfer from May...perhaps if we knew it was going to take along time to complete we should have set a deadline and moved onto another target perhaps? Seriously, where is Nicci C's number? UJ needs to be on board. It's just that simple! No one disagrees it would be good in an ideal world if all business was done before July 1st or when players are back for pre-season. But the reality is the market does not work like that. As I keep trying to tell Alpine, you only need to see how much happens in the last week/day/hour of the window to see that. Whilst the window is open after the season starts, this will always happen. Also, could you imagine how people, probably you included, if the club kept just swapping targets if the transfer didn't happen in a day like some people seem to think they all do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KelvinsRightGlove Posted 19 September, 2013 Share Posted 19 September, 2013 Out yourself on the gay thread - You will get more attention Wait til Osvaldo gets a hat-trick and UJ tells us all how useless he is the next day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toon Saint Posted 19 September, 2013 Share Posted 19 September, 2013 Geting Osvaldo and Lambert playing together will take time. If we'd had him in for pre-season, we wouldn't be having the problems we have now. It's a shame people at the club didn't realise how important it was to take advantage of our first 4 games of the season. Hope it doesn't come back to bite us. Two out of our three targets were landed in time for pre-season, so I'm not sure you can criticise the club for not taking that process of integrating new players seriously. In an ideal world we would have got Osvaldo in earlier, but market forces dictated otherwise and negotations don't always pan out as the buying club would like them to. To be fair, he was was ony signed after the first game of the season - a game we picked up three points from anyway. He has been available to play since. Don't know how much difference it would have made if he was signed a couple of weeks earlier, probably very marginal over the course of an entire season. Bearing in mind some of the clubs that were scrambling around on deadline day (Arsenal, Man Utd) not sure there is too much justification to be annoyed with the timing of our transfers to be honest! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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