Panic. O'Hare was more than likely on his way prior to his injury and with that sale dead in the water and interest in Hamer and Gyokeres going cold the club likely jumped at the chance to push the sale through as the need for cash is clearly verging on the desperate.
The sale of Gyokeres or Hamer is in itself a different entity altogether than Hyam. Hyam is likely being sold to plug short term cashflow issues as well as perhaps contribute on transfer instalments and the next sale - which will either be made in the next few days or at best January - will be used to make up the shortfall this season due to operational costs exceeding turnover.
Worrying we can’t access short term finance for this sort of thing. In an ideal world Hamer and O’Hare would’ve gone for £15m between them and Joy gets her pound of flesh and Robins gets a budget to reinvest.
It’s pure bad luck one hasn’t come off and possibly bad valuation/negotiation the other hasn’t. But we need to learn from that and move forward accordingly not immediately be thrown into talk of the club folding because one window didn’t pay off. That was always a risk, it shouldn’t be knocking us off course.
That it is is because we’ve got no buffer between the transfer activity and the debts needing paying. Which is weird cos most of it is to Sisu. Think I’m right in saying a season long interest fee holiday would roughly bring in what Hyam is going to.