It is commonly agreed by a range of fans that to have your
chairman as a visible presence eon the internet has been a nice bonus. We have
talked before about the fact the difference between Forest under the al-Hasawi
regime is a different animal to that of under the Doughty days.
Fawaz though has almost created a rod for his back by trying
to keep fans included in the various stages of the transfer process. Now there
is confusion with some people between what agreeing a deal and concluding a
transfer is. Just because we agreed a deal with a club doesn’t mean the signing
is completed. There are myriad things to go wrong. How the deal is be paid,
what instalments are paid at what tie, the deal with the player and of course
the agent.
So when Fawaz said we had agreed a deal for Hobbs there was
all that yet to thrashed out. Now it seems as mentioned the other day it was personal
terms with the player that was the stumbling block. So when Fawaz gets accused of lying by some
people about this deal, that person is basically showing a complete lack of
basic understanding of how things go down.
Now Fawaz has tweeted that we agreed personal terms with
Djebbour and mentioned we just need to thrash out deals with his parent club
Olympiakos a lot of fans went into a frenzy about how we are announcing deals
before the deal is done. Now maybe Fawaz is being a little premature, but it is
a sign that we are trying to do business and are out there agreeing deals. The
nature of such a deal was that Olympiakos clearly want to sell, as they nearly
reached a deal in the summer, so now we agreed a deal with the player and as
said before have to sort out the minute details of the transfer insofar as how
much we will be paying and when.
This is where the second part of the article comes in. The
fact that people seem angry that we are announcing deals before they are done
and could collapse and saying it’s unprofessional. The same people up in arms
are often the very same moaning about the lack of news or lack of business in
the market. It’s because of these types of tweets about the lack of business
and those people who think the moment Jan 1st arrives there should
be a revolving door of players coming into the club that moves Fawaz announces
these things to keep fans happy, appeased, and buying tickets. It’s an on-going
cycle.
But the same pressures can these same problems we
experienced, that we announce something about to be done before the ink is dry
and everything goes wrong. This then cause fan to accuse the club of a lack of
professionalism, and that we need extra help, but if those people weren’t constantly
in Fawaz ear he wouldn’t feel this need. Additionally I dread to think of what direct
messages on Twitter Fawaz receives from all sorts suggesting deals.
If only fans just let the club get on with doing what they
do. There is also an element of everyone believing their opinion has to be
heard. And there’s nothing wrong with that, but there’s a lot of who think if
they shout loudest their opinion matters most.
Deals will go through when they do. What we don’t need is
over the top zealous fans getting on the high horses and creating a bad
atmosphere. Fawaz tweets because he genuinely wants to try and keep us informed
and appease fan who might be agitated. Don’t them use this as a rope to hang
him from when it doesn’t happen.
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