Kalimantan Gull
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If the Argus was actively helping the club damp down rumours about Maupay to keep the story under wraps, and that played a part in us successfully signing him, then I'm all for that
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[Albion] Dunk to Leicester City?
- Thread starter Lenny Rider
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Yep, he chose Brentford over us as he needed to play football and Brentford guaranteed that in the Championship. As a PL club football was not guaranteed as much.
We paid £15M more than we could have 2 years ago, but then the reverse has happened with Andone
Quite! And let's remember that Naylor told us that Bobby Z would never be returning to BHAFC just a few weeks before.....err.......Bobby Z returned to BHAFC!
Does Naylor actually know more than a few well placed individuals on NSC? Probably not.
Because it's bloody obvious. We'll have been planning to make a move for a striker for months, and would have made a shortlist before the transfer window opened. We knew we needed a new striker, it wasn't a case of just getting one if a decent one fell into our lap. It was then reported in the Evening Standard that we were interested. It's crystal clear they were right.
Yes, the Argus's sources didn't know about it. That's all I'm saying. But just because the Argus (via their sources) didn't know, doesn't mean it wasn't happening, as it clearly was.
Please go ahead and quote from the Argus all the other strikers we were trying to get in before we gave up and settled on Maupay.
Not Andy Naylor
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Because, as I keep saying, no-one knows anything 97 percent of the time! The example I always give is Mourinho's first departure from Chelsea. A media room in London full of so-called Chelsea 'experts' from every national paper plus the Evening Standard was entirely taken by surprise.
Not Andy Naylor
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... which is more or less admitting to an illegal approach. I hope Brentford don't spot that.
Green Cross Code Man
Wunt be druv
Interesting as many Brenford fans were posting and tweeting that he had been tapped up.
Quick, delete your messages!
- Jun 27, 2012
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If this ambiguous tweet out of 100s in the past 10 years knocking back rumour after rumour , all correct, is the one you want to cite as a reason to ignore the good work of Naylor and now Owen for Albion fans during this blizzard of nonsense, clickbait and agent speculation then fair enough. I prefer that they are there in the transfer window reporting what they know with decent sources and yes, integrity about what they do..
I asked you to quote the strikers the Argus linked us to. Can you do that?
- Jun 27, 2012
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https://www.theargus.co.uk/sport/17807665.albion-play-waiting-game-morocco-striker/
They also said the club were targeting Maupay on July 24th
https://www.theargus.co.uk/sport/17789972.two-go-albion-quest-signings-continues/
and in tweets from their reporters before that post the knock back from Naylor in June
Right, so they linked us to one other striker (who, incidentally, had already been confirmed on here). You are arguing that maybe we hadn't shown interest in Maupay by the 10th of June, because we were pursuing other targets, yet the only other target you're able to come up with is Youssef En-Nesyri, and the Argus didn't mention him until 7 weeks after they'd said we weren't interested in Maupay.
So do you seriously think the club weren't making moves to get any strikers at all in June, or are you prepared to accept that the Argus simply didn't know whom the club were trying to buy?
- Jun 27, 2012
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I've no idea. I trust their reporting and you don't. I think thats extremely undeserved but clearly you don't. Fair enough.
I'm simply aware that the club do their best to stop leaks on potential transfers, which means that the Argus often don't know about transfer news until after others have already revealed it.
That in itself is no great slur against the Argus, but you're ignoring the facts and claiming that whatever they say goes.
SockMonster
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Is there any point to this discussion? Seems such waste of energy to get het up about whether The Argus did know or didn't know.
B.W.
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- Jul 5, 2003
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Naylor clearly knows more...
I don't know why you're taking this so personally. To claim that their 100s of tweets over 10 years have all been correct is laughable. Part of the reason I don't treat their work as gospel is that when they say we're not interested in someone they often get it wrong.
- Jun 27, 2012
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I've just engaged in a lengthy thread with you quoting articles, links and tweets and answering your questions. Hardly "ignoring the facts".
Also saying i trust their reporting is not the same as claiming "Whatever they say goes" .
B.W.
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- Jul 5, 2003
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Spot on. I'll trust the Argus over some random ITK wannabees on NSC every time...
It was about whether Leicester could have been interested in Dunk. The claim was that the Argus said they weren't, therefore that should be an end to the matter. I simply pointed out that they don't always know when there's interest in a player. It's not a wild claim, I'm clearly right, but Jem gave an oath to defend the Argus to his death, so he's arguing against reality.