Stretch
Full Member
The trouble with a 'back up plan' is that these sagas involving the very top players tend to go on until pretty much deadline day which leaves little time to implement the back up plan - see Herrera last summer (we had to implement Davie's Plan Z in the end)
It doesn't have to go on until the last day and I doubt the club will allow that to happen again. Dithering Dave contributed a lot to our deals falling through or being delayed until the last minute.