manxaccie wrote:No need to be a petulant dick about it, though.
Yeah, that's the bit that we don't know about. Was the agent mucking Accies about? Should Strain have gone to the press? Is it unprofessional to do so? Is the agent reputable/un reputable? Many different factors at play and to be fair to Strain he's had a pretty good transfer window, so I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt on this one.
To answer the questions in turn:-
1. The agent will be trying to get the best deal/club for his player that’s his job. If he’s ‘messing us’ about he’ll be messing ICT and Airdrie as well and they don’t have people going to press crying about it.
2. No he shouldn’t have, and if he felt he had to there is no need to burn bridges with the agent and player when doing so.
3. Yes it was unprofessional as above
4. Does it matter? It’s Connor smiths agent and that’s who we wanted to sign. If you have to deal with an ‘unreputable’ agent then you just get on with it.
On your other paragraph, Accies have had a good transfer window and Gerry Strain has been sure to let us know he is at the heart of it every time we announce someone