yeah probably, i think that's what the hold up is if i were to guess. I mean he was one of the young stars of the world cup, i'm sure he was expecting at least a team in europe to be interested. If the worst comes to worst, i'm sure we could convince him to join us on loan for the season.
I trusted we would be okay with giroud last season, i thought we surely weren't amateur enough to not have a backup option, so that's why i won't trust us not to eff up again.
Thankfuly, we haven't different people doing transfers now, and the richarlison deal for me, seemed to suggest they could be trusted. I don't think we were even in for malcom, nowhere near as close as sky reported, but as soon as he was off to roma, which happened quickly, we seemed to tie up richarlison, which did to me seem like we may have moved on to a second target straight away and got it done.
But that was only one transfer, so i'd need more evidence, but i am more relaxed this summer that if the mina went south, we'd quickly tie up another deal before the window closes.