RoyalBlue http://www.readingfc.premiumtv.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10306~1382476,00.htmlSteve Coppell We were on standby. We had a couple of deals lined up in case we lost a player. I'm not stupid, I knew some clubs would make panic buys based on poor results. If we lost key players, we had ones we could bring in.
In some ways, our last minute buys in response to other clubs making last minute panic buys from us would also have been panic buys! Coppell also referred to last minute panic buys as being the result of poor/mismanagement!
Yes and no. The key point is we had deals lined up ready to go if needed, they wouldn't have been a panic buy but a contingency. Having a contingency is place should something happen is actually good management.