This last minute scramble I'm afraid is embarrassing and the names linked now a bi-product of leaving it so late.
People will no doubt and without any hint of irony say how was the club to know Joel Matip would get injured? ......
But of course he is always injured and the problem as always been there. This should have been planned for the moment Gomez went down injured long term.
If we had to sell or loan a foreign player to make way for a foreign centre half that should have been on the agenda. So that the moment the window opened we had someone ready to sign.
Now we find ourselves trawling through a very niche market of players who can at a moments notice leave their club without any push back from said club and sign by Monday. That's a very small list and as you can imagine it will now be impossible to find a defender in that bracket who fits in with our style of play, IE high defensive line.
It is now at the stage where we are looking for bodies rather than players.
Didnt need to be that way. Its a terrible way to do business. I'm getting visions of John Henry typing in Google voucher code for centre half.
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