Get on with it!

Thank goodness season 2009/10 is over at last. What a miserable experience it has been for supporters, manager, staff, players - everybody (except the west coast press who have loved it). Now we have to go on standby to see what happens in the transfer market.
The usual form with players nowadays is that they will wait till five to midnight on the last day of the transfer window to see where their best offer is coming from. Most of them are too dumb to realise, even if they cared, that their playing the market that way does serious damage to clubs and the game in general. Fans don't want to buy season tickets until they know who is coming to their club, or at least see one or two signings to set the ball rolling. The consequence is that cash flow gets screwed and clubs, already under pressure from their banks (mainly Lloyd's in Scotland) have to struggle to cope with the gap ans that could mean that they have to cut back on budgets and offer players even less in the way of wages and/or signing-on fees.
Waiting till the transfer deadline can also mean that players miss out on pre-season training and won't be properly prepared to play for whoever they do sign on with. Next consequence? Teams can start understrength, fans get pissed off early and don't go as much as they might have done, if at all. That leaves clubs wrestling with a worsening financial position that the players don't care about because they "never think about the financial side." This of course is a lie because football players are very wrapped up in how much they can squeeze from the game. The traditional response to this attitude is that nobody can blame the players for trying to earn as much as possible, but this is a smoke screen. Footballers already operate outwith the normal realms of employment in a little fantasy world of their own where they take responsibility for nothing. It almost puts them on a par with bankers except that they are damaging the football industry rather than the global economy.
Aberdeen seem to suffer from players attitudes more than some other clubs because the are "so far away" from the central belt or for players from south of the border they are in the back of beyond, so hard to get to. Again this is nonsense as Aberdeen is served by a busy international airport and whilst the A90 could be better it will still get you into the central belt in a couple of hours. Of course, if players were really committing themselves to doing a job for Aberdeen FC they would be coming to live in the northeast within easy reach of their place of work instead of their favourite supermarket or night club in Weegieland.
The same applies to managers and coaches. Sure they might have a nice house somewhere else and their families might well be settled wherever that is, but if they are true professionals and truly want to do a good job for Aberdeen, then they should be setting players the example and setting up home in the City.