Rumours Rumours Rumours - a question

GOM said:

Since the departure of Sammy et al and the arrival of Mr Winstanley, how many of our actual signings have been featured in a rumours thread ?

I'll start with BZ - any more ?

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Weststander said:

Only SSN, Independent, Guardian, Telegraph and Times always have truthful transfer news. BBC simply pass on truthful stuff.

But because fans are desparate to hear something about their club, we end up reading the lying hacks at the tabloids, and the shite out of Spanish and German websites. The tabloids might get the rare thing thing correct and gloat, but that's only after a scatter gun approach of publising hundreds of baseless transfer leads.

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Not Andy Naylor said:

Oh, please - so the Telegraph were right about Abraham going to Newcastle, what, nine days ago, were they? And in the industry, 'Sky sources report' is well known as meaning 'The Mirror/Sun reported this morning.' Nobody knows anything.

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Bigtomfu said:

And in our case that's especially true.

I have no names but through a well placed source know we're working on 8 deals ATM.

The source didn't say it was 8 discrete transactions (i.e we won't sign all 8) but we are working on them all in the knowledge that they won't all come off but ALL would be an improvement on what we currently have.

I will be happy with GK, LB upgrade, ST upgrade and three additional players that improve already well filled positions such as Genki coming in to challenge Skalak/Murphy for the second back up winger role.


Sometimes right, sometimes wrong but ALWAYS certain

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ditchy said:

I would be surprised if it were not at least 8 . I am pretty sure that certain options would rule out other parts of the transfer targets , IE if we get Tammy then we dont get Filamori etc and add on all sorts of permutations .

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Frutos said:

Filamori?

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The red pepper kid said:

[Great location/city to live in, with easy links to London/Gatwick

You have to think we'd be a more attractive prospect compared to the likes of Bournemouth, Watford, Palace, Burnley etc.? We could see some real top-notch talent here.
well unfortunately as much as I really don't like it- the first 3 all pay more than we can and b/muff is a great place to live- just crummy burnley lose out to us

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Not Andy Naylor said:

I understand that a forthcoming book about the past two seasons will include a passage in which Winstanley says something like "It's very rare that I ever see any names linked with us in the press that are real to us, very rare. A lot of stuff gets put out there but 95 percent of the time it's wide of the mark, and very wide.”

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Jim D said:

So, where does that leave us regarding Ryan, Tammy, Tomori, Genki - to say nothing of Hughes, Danish guy, Brazilian guy etc.?

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Not Andy Naylor said:

Sounds as if we'll get part of one of them.

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Not Andy Naylor said:

'than we can'? What do you base that on?

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The red pepper kid said:

ok more than we are prepared to---- provide examples of us outbidding other clubs up to this stage in the last 5years-

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Frutos said:

Filamori?

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