By Tom Sunderland Transfers are a tempestuous facet of football; sometimes they work like a well-oiled machine, and other deals are more akin to a rusty clock. The modern game demands synchronicity at all levels of a club, from the squad itself to the manager and those higher up the food chain. And if there’s a broken link anywhere in that chain, it can often have disastrous consequences. There are those rare occasions when a tactician will be proved wrong and a signing performs way beyond expectations. However, those examples are fewer and further between when the person picking the team shee…