One signing, two verdicts: genius business or reckless gamble

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Pick any recent transfer, trade or signing in your sport of choice, the kind that split fans right down the middle the moment it was announced. Until results actually come in, it exists as both a genuinely shrewd piece of business that'll look brilliant in hindsight, and an obviously reckless gamble everyone will point to as the turning point

The fun part is both framings usually have real evidence behind them right now, a good track record pulls one way, a concerning stat pulls the other, and nobody actually knows which one wins until it's already happened

Name your pick, argue your case. Genius or disaster, no sitting on the fence allowed