There Is No Try

Headline over on dcunited.com says...
DC hope international scouting yields signings soon
Smacks of magical thinking doesn't it? Go scouting, pray a bit, and check under the tree to see what Santa Transfer Window has left you. Of course, I realize that headlines can often be misleading, and perhaps I'm reading a bit too much into it. But then I read this quote from Ashton...
“[We’re] still trying to negotiate particulars and things of that nature. There’s always a lot of hoops and a lot of red tape you have to get through, and so we’re working on that. I think we’re getting closer all the time and hopefully we’ll have some announcements soon.”
Think? Hope? How about "do"? Same article says pre-season training begins in less than a week, and United have just 18 bodies on the roster plus two trialist hold-overs (I'm thinking their chances of making the squad look pretty damn good at this point, don't you?). Not that I'm looking for any preemptive trigger-pulling from the FO...


*cough!*

Lest you need any reminding, here's Ashton on December 15. That's almost a month ago for those of you keeping score at home...
“We’ve definitely done our due diligence, now it’s about trying to work out deals that are acceptable with both parties. We’re hoping to have some announcements we can make over the next few weeks. It’s just a matter of those things progressing in the direction we want them to go.”
Weasel words. Endless inaction. "Trying to negotiate"? "Trying to work out deals"?

In the words of a wise old dude in the last good Star Wars movie, "Do or do not, there is no try."


2 comments:

  1. Totally agree. Read this article and came away with two assumptions 1) Ashton's not great with the press and 2) We're either looking at some questionable or failed signings pretty soon. We've only had one rumor, Dudar, who won Swiss Defender of the Yeay in 2010. That we haven't even heard names makes it seem like our wishlist is taking a hit.

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  2. Yeah, I had a "Rumors" section in my rough draft of the first "Roster Reset" post, but one lonely rumor from a foreign-language rag sitting all by its lonesome looked pretty pathetic so it hit the cutting room floor. Ashton's got corporate middle-management written all over him...

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