Turner Inviting Transfer Pressure Onto Himself

Despite our lacklustre home form, it hasn’t been a bad start to the season for Pools. While the table isn’t really worth bothering with at this stage it’s still nice to see us sitting comfortably in mid-table.

New signings like Scott Flinders have made a good impact but I think Chris Turner is inviting pressure on himself by talking about other clubs looking at our players already.

Last Tuesday Turner made the following statement in the paper ”I would be very surprised if there wasn’t some interest in four or five of our players in January.”

While some of them have impressed so far, it’s only been a few games. There’s a big difference between impressing at the start of a season for a new club and doing it week in, week out.

Now, this morning the Sunderland Echo are reporting Celtic are interested in Gary Liddle. Now usually you could dismiss this as paper talk but once again Chris Turner is quoted.

”I would not be surprised at all if Celtic were interested. When we played West Brom last season, Tony Mowbray was really enthusiastic about Gary Liddle after the game.” he says in the article.

Again, I don’t understand why he needs to comment on this matter and add fuel to the fire. I thought the club didn’t comment on transfer talk until it was a done deal?

Given the sums of money Turner was allowed to spend on new players this summer I’d have thought that we were in a position where we could reject offers for our players unless it was a considerable sum.