You can only do that if the players club wants to sell and the player wants to come
Are you for real? That's what I'm saying, that should all be done BEFORE a sale. If we had the first sniff of the player not wanting to come, or the club not wanting to sell, you move on.
The groundwork shouldn't be done on the last day of the fucking window when nobody wants to sell and where prices are at a window-high.