What Is The Clubs Transfer Strategy

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It was never going to happen though Sniff was it? If EM wants blood they will be feeding back to him that Sabri had the tools but failed, knowing that they  f****d up in the winter window.

No. These are EM's trusted generals along with Vrentzos and Dourekas.

Modesto and Anigo only scout the players; Vrentzos decides how much we will pay for the players and how much wages we offer.

When Clubs refuse to sell to us or players refuse to come, usually for money related issues, how can that be the fault of the scouts?

Maybe they didn’t come up with realistic targets?

Gayle, Freeman and Grosicki were the main January targets if you believe The Athletic. ambitious, but how likely were they to come here? Nothing wrong with trying, but where were the back up targets.

I agree with your general point, it isn’t the scouts job to negotiate finances. 

Also, some fans make it sound like we have money to burn when in reality we have mid-table income to play with.

January is a very difficult window to deal in with fees and wages being inflated to ridiculous levels; more and more Clubs are refusing to do business in that window.

It goes deeper than the cost element too; The Athletic published a detailed report showing the impact that players have who moved during the January window; the impact was so bad it made you wonder why Clubs bother.

Yeah, i am sure Swansea are fuming they brought in Conor Galagher and Brewster in January. Same for the Man Utd fan with Fernandes and Ighalo

I wonder how the Hammers feel about Jarod Bowen, cost an arm and a leg but helped keep them up.

Fulham did ok 

Kamil Grosiki did great at WBA. Chester shored up the Stoke defence, Hogan scored lots of goals for Brum[/align]

Augustin wasnt a success for Leeds, but helped push on Bamford, who had a great second half of the season/

And Derby did so much better with Rooney inside from the beginning of January.

So you can do good recruitment in January, with the right financial backing and the right scouts etc

Buy from a position of strength. Pay cheap you pay twice.