There’s a big difference in working out a £100million transfer than one involving about £30million.Not two deals are gonna be the same - like you say, who actually knows what is taking so long and what stage the discussion is at.
Are we waiting on the player to make up their mind? Waiting on confirming the structure of the deals? Is Levy sitting there with his pen hovered over the contract laughing hysterically about how stressed the folks are over on TFC forum?
It is really impossible to know. Rice was 'announced' a couple of weeks ago now and still isn't officially an Woolwich player yet.

