Goodness sake - cut
@The Esk some slack..... Has everything happened exactly as he said it would - no. Has he simply been trying to pass on to us the best information he has access too - yes. The man is simply trying to share what he knows, which is considerate of him considering it is well more than most of us are privy too.....
So what if we have not signed anyone. One must point out that the players we are all most wound up about have not signed elsewhere either.
So to sum up we seem to have:
Interest and likely at least initial contract/fee discussions regarding: Witsel, Mata and Haller
Interest and contact regarding: Koulibaly and Schmeichel
Interest in: Rolan, Begovic, Carvalho and Wijnaldum
That is a fine list of players and negotiations with quality players take time. For those that just want something/anything to get done allow me to introduce you to exhibit "A" for the something/anything quality player - one Mr. Sketelenburg. Nothing wrong with him, he is a serviceable squad player and if we wanted to sign many more of his ilk i am sure that they would very likely have already been done.
We are thankfully aiming higher though. Not just for starters, but for class starters.
Until our targets actually start signing for other teams then there is no reason to get despondent.
The only reasonable concern to me at this point is that one can only hope we have "plan B" players for each identified role and have at least made approaches so that we do not start from scratch if "plan A" falls through.
It may take a while, but Moshiri is building toward better times ahead - Koeman is proof of that (remember all of you lot saying we would end up with Martin O'Neil or Moyes back.....).
There's time yet fellas. Stay positive and don't tear down a decent guy like
@The Esk for passing on what information he has in good faith.