Just a few points I feel I have to raise.
For the last few weeks, i've heard some really silly excuses on this forum for why we haven't signed players. Some said to wait until the window closes and we are stupid to panic (despite me saying I base it on our past record) and others said that if we spent all of our money earlier in the window, we would miss out on these mythical bargains that exist at the end of the window (what bargains are those exactly?).
So, what went wrong?
I'd like to point out that we made a move for Camacho with only a few days left of the window. Some would argue he "only became available in the final few days", but this argument is negated by the fact we activated a release clause that stood at the very start of the window. This could have been done at the start of the window, proving it was a last minute decision and not due to a changing market.
We then decided to turn our attention to a player that we had zero chance of signing in Carvalho. When that failed, it is reported that Pulis decided to pull the plug on the Camacho deal.
This for me hints that there is no one man in charge of the transfer dealings, and instead there are a number of different agendas at work behind the scenes, and this is a real problem as decisions do not get made in the sort of climate.
People need to realise that this club is not being run in the way it needs to be run. Well run clubs invest in players earlier, make better decisions and also find talent who are on the up, as opposed to having reached their peaks or being on the way down. We have not done this in the post Ashworth era.
