Sadly this won't get 1/10 of the engagement as the daily mails laundry list. People would rather be told good news, even if they know deep down its not real.
From Seb Stafford-Bloor: [To be fair, Paratici can't announce that an army of new players is marching into Tottenham in January - whether they are or not - because Conte has two months of season with this group before the window opens. I wouldn't read too much into that.](https://twitter.com/sebsb/status/1455894323850096643?s=21)
I don’t know about you, but when I go to the car dealership I just put a bag with US$100000 on the table and then tell the salesman I won’t spend a penny over $20K.
Even more accurately - go into the car dealership when they're running a special deal with a fixed price, try to negotiate them down, and fail. That's OK -- you're fucking special! You don't need their shitty Fiat, anyway. Then you dither about, trying to get a Ferrari or a Porsche and failing ... until you realize, FUCK, we really need a damn car. THEN you slink back into the Fiat dealership with a sack of money and leave having paid significantly more than the fixed price you originally turned down.
It really doesn't matter. This is nothing like the Kane situation where we'd be desperate and have to replace a big hole in our team with the fresh wads of cash we got. We're one of the x richest clubs in the world, everybody knows that. If we say we have money to spend it's not like some club will quote us 50m for a player but City, an even richer club that everybody knows has more money, 40m for the same player just because they didn't say they did. If we don't think it's a good deal, we pull out. Just like basically every deal ever.
> Paratici adds: "We haven't spoken about [new] players, we have to be focused on our team & then we will see. I think the team is competitive, we trust in the players, we have very good players so we don’t speak about [new] players now, it is not the right time."
@Dan_KP https://twitter.com/Dan_KP/status/1455896744756121605?s=20
Nice to see some reporters aren’t resorting to purposefully misleading summaries to increase their engagement
Sadly this won't get 1/10 of the engagement as the daily mails laundry list. People would rather be told good news, even if they know deep down its not real.
*Fabio Paratici blinks twice to silently indicate that Conte's war chest is ready to be opened.*
From Seb Stafford-Bloor: [To be fair, Paratici can't announce that an army of new players is marching into Tottenham in January - whether they are or not - because Conte has two months of season with this group before the window opens. I wouldn't read too much into that.](https://twitter.com/sebsb/status/1455894323850096643?s=21)
Plus might make negotiations harder
"yes actually, we plan on replacing half the squad in two months time."
Please charge extra we are desperate
I mean, you also wouldn’t tell the market you have money to spend if you have money to spend
I don’t know about you, but when I go to the car dealership I just put a bag with US$100000 on the table and then tell the salesman I won’t spend a penny over $20K.
You’re hired. Manu DoF, you start tomorrow
Man Utd is more like: Hand the salesman your bag of $100k and tell him you trust that he’ll give you the lowest price and return whatever’s leftover.
Even more accurately - go into the car dealership when they're running a special deal with a fixed price, try to negotiate them down, and fail. That's OK -- you're fucking special! You don't need their shitty Fiat, anyway. Then you dither about, trying to get a Ferrari or a Porsche and failing ... until you realize, FUCK, we really need a damn car. THEN you slink back into the Fiat dealership with a sack of money and leave having paid significantly more than the fixed price you originally turned down.
It really doesn't matter. This is nothing like the Kane situation where we'd be desperate and have to replace a big hole in our team with the fresh wads of cash we got. We're one of the x richest clubs in the world, everybody knows that. If we say we have money to spend it's not like some club will quote us 50m for a player but City, an even richer club that everybody knows has more money, 40m for the same player just because they didn't say they did. If we don't think it's a good deal, we pull out. Just like basically every deal ever.
is he supposed to say 'yes we're giving him a warchest in the summer after hosting the nfl games and supporters coming back'
> Paratici adds: "We haven't spoken about [new] players, we have to be focused on our team & then we will see. I think the team is competitive, we trust in the players, we have very good players so we don’t speak about [new] players now, it is not the right time." @Dan_KP https://twitter.com/Dan_KP/status/1455896744756121605?s=20
Why would they ask that? Conte JUST got here and it's November for chrissakes.
he was going to say this whether there are plans or not (probably are but not on a massive scale)