Sheffsteel
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This would elevate Sunjihi back up to ITK status. Not been great on transfer news before, but impressive on fixtures and injuries.
To be fair 100% "in the know" transfer news can easily backfire.
I remember Warnock being interviewed about 15 year ago.
He was saying that he has some amazing stories regards prospective signings and their agents.
Warnock said he's shaken hands on deals and the player has agreed to come.
Then the following day a medical is arranged and the contracts are drawn up. Then he'll read in the newspaper that the same player has just signed for another club, they didn't have the decency to phone him to let him know they're joining other club.
So Warnock was explaining he always has target A, target B and target C
and even when a player tells him he's agreed to join Sheff United.....he still doesn't accept it as happening until all the contracts have been signed.
Chris Wilder was interviewed a few year ago and he was pulling faces explaining that player transfers when dealing with agents can be a total nightmare.
There was the famous Jerome Sinclair signing where the agent had verbally agreed everything.
Sinclair was on his way to Bramall Lane but then the agent wanted an additional signing on fee.
United could have simply paid....but Wilder called the agents bluff and refused....explaining that a deal had been verbally agreed.
In the end Sinclair didn't come and his career seems to have stalled since, for him it's a case of what might have been.