Four whole days before the start of the next football season, and we’ve just decided to sell one of our key players.
But that’s fine, because we have more than adequate back up and squad depth for that position.
Oh. Wait. No. No, we don’t.
OK, so maybe not at the moment, but there are still [checks notes] a whole four days before the season starts. We can surely find exactly the right player(s), get them signed, registered, trained up and adapted to our system in the next 72 hours, so that they’re ready to go on Saturday evening, right?
Well, probably not.
But at least we got a HUGE sum of money for him.
Considerably less, you say? Like what?
Oh, so like less than half what you originally told us, and now some of which we have to give to another team?
Great. Just great.
When we’ve sold players just before the start of a season before, things have gone hideously wrong.
Obviously, things could be much, much worse, but then that’s not a good bar to aim for.
Can we please not mess up this season before it’s even begun?