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West Bromwich Albion FC / How many other deals were close?
« on: February 04, 2025, 02:20:36 PM »
Every transfer window we spend weeks debating players that might be coming and going and at the end, there’s almost no correlation between players we suggest and those we get. Did ANYONE think of Bany/ Price/ Armstrong/ Lanshear? I’d only heard of Armstrong but never even considered him as someone we might get. Of the players who might be going, we all debated Fellows/ Grant/ Wallace/ Swift and none of them transpired. I only had AP down a possible, not a probable.
It would be absolutely fascinating to know whether any of “our” deals were even considered or how close they got. Was a deal for Grady something that was being actively brokered with a dozen clubs or was it something that wasn’t even mentioned? Are any of our players only still here because other dominoes didn’t fall the right way in the last few hours of the window. We will never know for sure and I don’t blame the management for keeping quiet. It wouldn’t benefit us at all to announce that a player is only here because no one wanted them. But it would be really, really interesting to have been a fly on the wall…
It would be absolutely fascinating to know whether any of “our” deals were even considered or how close they got. Was a deal for Grady something that was being actively brokered with a dozen clubs or was it something that wasn’t even mentioned? Are any of our players only still here because other dominoes didn’t fall the right way in the last few hours of the window. We will never know for sure and I don’t blame the management for keeping quiet. It wouldn’t benefit us at all to announce that a player is only here because no one wanted them. But it would be really, really interesting to have been a fly on the wall…