Adrien Silva - Terms Agreed

[fuchsntf]

27 minutes ago, Izzy Muzzett said:

It's all Ross Barkleys fault for changing his mind last minute - the twat

I know you say it with tongue in cheek...but if we really were interested and really wanted to show positive

intent with notions of striving forward then Rudkin and management, would of sealed his signature,

Well before window closure, or any DD business movement. I still class this Leicester business on Silva

as pathetic and embarrasing. There would of been squad space for both if necessary.

We have off loaded on loan,Mendy and Musa (I believe)

 

Midfield Squad choice of  DD/Silva/Iberro/James/Ndidi/ Amartey/King, wouldnt of been OTT, imo.

[richardsfoxes]

It will go over the line, they are not going to sentence someone to basically 4 months no play especially if the deal is done oh and to add to that he's a international player who has a world cup next year Portugal would probably go nuts. 

[Jattdogg]

Ok meow, can we all just keep calm. Everything will turn out just purrfectly in the end. 

[Livid]

1 hour ago, davieG said:

Except MrsG got done for doing 33 in a 30 limit.

So who knows

That was harsh usually 36+ in a 30!

[surrifox]

12 minutes ago, richardsfoxes said:

It will go over the line, they are not going to sentence someone to basically 4 months no play especially if the deal is done oh and to add to that he's a international player who has a world cup next year Portugal would probably go nuts. 

that raises interesting dynamics- if he's our player but they ban him from playing for us  surely we can threaten not to release him - I cant see how FIFA could exercise their sanction to compel clubs to release players if they have blocked him from playing for us (might p*** Adrien off though)

[Fox 4 Life]

He has been officially left out of Sporting's champions league squad. Not a surprise but shows they are confident it has gone through 

[st albans fox]

Gone past closing time in FIFA Zurich office now

 

what odds the first you hear is when his photos get done tomorrow and tweeted  ??

[davieG]

52 minutes ago, Livid said:

That was harsh usually 36+ in a 30!

It was about 200 yards long between a 40 and a 20. She never speeds either and it was 7am on a Sunday.

She was your namesake for weeks.

[Cadno'r Cymoedd]

2 hours ago, stripeyfox said:

It is a bit odd. You’d think that either a) everything was done in time, he is Leicester’s player or b) everything wasn’t done in time, he remains Sporting player.

 

But somehow we could potentially be in a alternative dimension where he is neither?

 

 

[Babylon]

 

Hello, Hello, where is Rudkin I have your International Clear...... arrrgh.

[AjcW]

3 minutes ago, Babylon said:

 

Hello, Hello, where is Rudkin I have your International Clear...... arrrgh.

i'm like 20 loops in  

[KFS]

Look at all those fannys scrambling to pick him up

[whoareyaaa]

If only he was born with a longer arm

[theessexfox]

Baffles me why things in the transfer window are left to the last minute, to the extent we even need an extension to the deadline. Just seems so nonsensical, there's been months. 

[KingsX]

3 hours ago, Byson said:

When are we likely to find out ? 

When this thread hits 200 pages.

[Mike Oxlong]

42 minutes ago, davieG said:

It was about 200 yards long between a 40 and a 20. She never speeds either and it was 7am on a Sunday.

She was your namesake for weeks.

Glad to hear that she wasn't mine. 

[deep blue]

1 hour ago, fuchsntf said:

I know you say it with tongue in cheek...but if we really were interested and really wanted to show positive

intent with notions of striving forward then Rudkin and management, would of sealed his signature,

Well before window closure, or any DD business movement. I still class this Leicester business on Silva

as pathetic and embarrasing. There would of been squad space for both if necessary.

We have off loaded on loan,Mendy and Musa (I believe)

 

Midfield Squad choice of  DD/Silva/Iberro/James/Ndidi/ Amartey/King, wouldnt of been OTT, imo.

Is it possible that FFP concerns made us wary of signing Silva without selling Drinky first?

[whoareyaaa]

5 minutes ago, theessexfox said:

Baffles me why things in the transfer window are left to the last minute, to the extent we even need an extension to the deadline. Just seems so nonsensical, there's been months. 

Blame DD or Chelsea or both or you could just stick the blame on Rudders seems the most logical thing to do.

[Captain...]

8 minutes ago, deep blue said:

Is it possible that FFP concerns made us wary of signing Silva without selling Drinky first?

I think we were also on the limit of 25 players with bringing in Drago, so we needed to offload someone before bringing another in.

 

 

[yorkie1999]

37 minutes ago, theessexfox said:

Baffles me why things in the transfer window are left to the last minute, to the extent we even need an extension to the deadline. Just seems so nonsensical, there's been months. 

Because players like Drinkwater aren't high priority players for someone like Chelsea, which consequently drops teams like us in it when they are desperate to fill a gap, should have asked for more. 

[st albans fox]

its a bit more straightforward in that we didn't want silva AND DD, now we have iborra and james fit.  those suggesting we just buy silva first are missing the point that if we had,  we would not have got more than 25m for DD from Chelsea.

[Lcfcbisto]

28 minutes ago, Captain... said:

I think we were also on the limit of 25 players with bringing in Drago, so we needed to offload someone before bringing another in.

 

 

Even with silva we are still only at 24

[Legend_in_blue]

Throw some notes at whoever is in charge of FIFA.  That'll get 'em moving.

[mozartfox]

This delay does not bode well.  Poor Rudders must be having sleepless nights over this.     Will the owners leave a tomato on each seat this coming week end?

[Bob Weasel Fox]

3 hours ago, davieG said:

Except MrsG got done for doing 33 in a 30 limit.

So who knows

How long ago @davieG ?

 

usually don't ticket any less than 10 per cent plus 1 at least?