xXKonan
Senior Member
I said it before I didn't like Segura, and he likely made things worse when he was given a sporting director job with a lot of power.I think it's this.
But it could also be Valverde telling the board to get rid of some midfielders before buying another one. So it's not like he rejected Seri personally because he wouldn't like him but he knows we already have too many players. And maybe (but that's just speculation) he's affraid Roberto could really decide to leave if we'd get another midfielder without selling/loaning some of them before.
Whatever the reasoning behind this is if it was truly Valverde's decision to not sign Seri then I can accept that. But he should let Robert&Co. knew that before they started to negotiate and almost reached a deal with Nice and Seri if reports were true.
It's impossible to know what's really going on but I think there are just to many cooks in one kitchen and everyone of them has their own preferences. I also have a feeling everything has started to go down since Pep Segura has taken over in his new role and got more power. I think Seri was Robert's personal favourite as there were rumours a long time ago he liked him even before we signed Paulinho and he was focusing on Ligue 1 market a lot since he's here. Again, if it was Valverde's decision then I'm ok with that but if it was Segura who rejected Seri for whatever reason then I can't get behind that. I know Robert is far from perfect but just look at how he dealt with most transfers last summer when he was working alone and what's going on right now. It's like night and day. Of course some of that is depending on Neymar unexpectedly leaving and left us with 222M to spend and other clubs knowing that but I still think we'd do a lot better if Segura wouldn't be included in transfer decisions. And of course if he'd just shut up in the media and stay diplomatic instead of saying we are close to sign Dembele and Coutinho when that was clearly not the case. Maybe I'm wrong and truth is different but I don't know what exactly he's trying to do and he brought nothing but a negativity since he got promoted a month and half ago so I believe he's our biggest problem in this transfer window by far.
He apparently fancies strong,energetic and physical players. Paulinho screams Segura signing and it wouldn't be surprising if he was the one that pushed the hardest for his signing. I think the Bellerin deal was more of a board signing than Roberts as well. But sanity prevailed and we ended up with Semedo who seems like a Robert signing.
Robert has watched and considered Seri an option for a while now. we went through all this trouble and met his agent and we were so close to signing him and all of a sudden we pulled the plug on him because Valverde said not to?
Yeah I don't buy that at all. I bet it has to do with the price Nice were wanting for him. It seems to easy to make Valverde a scapegoat in all of this.