Let me tell you why its so frustrating, if Liverpool, Chelsea, Man City, Madrid, Barca, Juve, Bayern were interested in a player and it was reported in the press we wouldnt question for one second whether they could pull it off, when it comes to us we have literally the smallest confidence in our CEO of landing anyone who isnt offered to us.
It seems when we are linked with someone the immediate reaction from fans is "who else could be interested" because we all know that whatever club that may be has more chance of landing them and we have no evidence to suggest anything other than we get outbid, take to long to dither or fuss over a couple of million and end up losing out. See Thiago, Ozil, Harrera, Hazard, Matic all who have convenient "we werent interested" excuses stapled to the back of them.
I was so confident of Shaw, and I had heard that he was definitely coming, but recently it seems we are YET AGAIN dithering over small contract issues. We briefed the press we would have our business done early to dismiss the previous windows, to move on and learn from mistakes. At the moment we have no confidence, not a smidge to suggest we are addressing the main issues in the squad like CB, midfield and that to me is shocking.