I figure his answer would be he'll wait an see.
If not, he'll sign for a desperate team who have been in or around the relegation positions for the last five years, not far off the bottom.
Italics the managers words.
Nothing wrong with being...
Not sure saying you are desperate helps as a negotiating tactic. Hopefully he's done it to try and bring a resolution one way or another to ongoing talks.
I think our preference would be a natural right winger. But I guess that if we could get a left winger who we think is top level/games changer, we get him in and adjust from there.