#4 Leaving it too late in the transfer window
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Managers always insist on wrapping up the business early on in the transfer window as it will help them assess the squad better and get a balanced unit in place by the time the new season kicks off. It helps the players get adjusted to each other and also helps to avoid the distractions that happen when a move drags on.
This doesn’t always happen for a number of reasons and the clubs have more often than not suffered as a result, either losing out on the player altogether or ending up paying more than what they would have liked.
Real Madrid are the club in this case but this time they are on the other side of the coin, with the infamous fax machine jokes that have become part of football folklore after David de Gea’s move to Real Madrid faded away on transfer deadline day in 2015.
The Spanish giants did not keep their pursuit of the goalkeeper a secret, but did very little to get the move done and dusted as they let the protracted transfer saga drag on until the final stages of the transfer window. In the end, it proved too little too late as De Gea stayed at Old Trafford and Real Madrid were left to ponder what might have been.
The Red Devils too have been on the receiving end. They ended up paying way over the top for Dimitar Berbatov as Manchester City entered the race for the Bulgarian striker who looked destined to end up at Old Trafford all along the 2008/09 summer transfer window.
