Transfer Rumours The Summer 2024 Transfer Thread

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Actually water does weigh more than lead... there is much more water on the planet than there is lead.
 
Darren Peacock’s Ponytail said:
Is it just a branch though? From my understanding it’s the founding concept of chaos theory. Though it’s a bit above above my station and I haven’t looked at since doing bird migration in 2000
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Not my main area either to be honest but my understanding was that chaos theory was the overall idea and the butterfly effect is one of the underlying principles. Maybe not a branch then, but I think it's a smaller part of the overall concept.
 
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haslam said:
Not my main area either to be honest but my understanding was that chaos theory was the overall idea and the butterfly effect is one of the underlying principles. Maybe not a branch then, but I think it's a smaller part of the overall concept.
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I think (and again, I'm no expert either) the butterfly effect was more of an example to use as a 'proof point' to help people understand how the the chaos theory might apply. But don't quote me on any of that.
 
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Moving back on track a moment. I do actually agree with some of the naysayers that we could do with signing a defender around about now andit's becoming a concern. Yes we also need a RW but I don't mind if that comes later on as you can kind of chuck a forward player into a game if you need to.

Defenders need time to train with the team and the system, especially if we end up signing a young one. At least a couple of weeks or pre-season and a couple of friendlies. Honestly, from what we've seen of Howe we're not seeing anyone new in the first team within a month of signing for us if he can avoid it. This week. We're getting a defender this week.
 
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haslam said:
Incorrect. As I pointed out at the time the number of points we got was enough to finish in the top 4 most seasons (8 out of the last 11). If you get 70+ points you'd be incredibly unlikely to miss out on Champions League football (Man Utd finished 2nd on 66 points a few years back). The whole "we only finished top 4 due to other teams doing badly" is a myth you've fallen for buddy.
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Was gonna post this myself but couldn't be arsed.
I guess our points total would have been less if they were better because we wouldn't have done so well in the head to heads. But hey, who gives a fuk?
 
Obi Wan said:
I think (and again, I'm no expert either) the butterfly effect was more of an example to use as a 'proof point' to help people understand how the the chaos theory might apply. But don't quote me on any of that.
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As a linked aside there is an excellent series free to listen to by the excellent Marcus de Sautoy which reignited some of my love for mathematics. I've read a bunch since but still love these (I'm not suggesting anyone else should, it's more if people were interested that's all!).

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00srz5b/episodes/downloads
 
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Rex Kramer said:
I would have to disagree with that entire argument because if the 3 other clubs didn't all have one of their worst seasons in the very same season more points would have gone to one of those clubs as usual.

Obviously Newcastle collected more points mate and that's why they had a good season, however if Liverpool Chelsea and Tottenham didn't all have a bad season ?

Essentially it was two things

1. 50% of the usual top 6 all had dreadful seasons at the same time.
2. Newcastle had a good season.

Similar to when pardew finished 5th then reality kicked in the following season.
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So speaks a child of Sky and the Premier League.

<laugh>
 
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Schlem Boogerman said:
Was gonna post this myself but couldn't be arsed.
I guess our points total would have been less if they were better because we wouldn't have done so well in the head to heads. But hey, who gives a fuk?
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Worth noting that Liverpool (who finished 5th behind us) did the double over us and Chelsea beat us too. Pretty sure we did better against the top teams in the season just gone.
 
haslam said:
It's not even that far back tbh.

All three of those teams had worse seasons in the previous couple of years and many, many worse of the previous decade. In terms of points on the board it simply wasn't one of their worst seasons.
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And conversely Man United had their BEST season of the last 3 years, otherwise we'd have finished in 3rd place.
 
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Rex Kramer said:
Actually no I merely gave my view which was shared by others on here and in the fanbase and unfortunately was challenged on secondary points of no relevance.

Anyway let's move on we've been going around in circles.

Any transfer news?
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Ha ha. You gave your view based on no factual evidence whatsoever. Being asked to produce evidence of your claims isn’t a secondary fact of no relevance it’s actually integral to what you were claiming.
Despite being asked many times to produce the quotes to back up your point it is actually you going around in circles desperate to avoid answering because you can’t back up your claims with facts.
Ex Bournemouth manager, brought up by you, I’ve asked what you meant by that and you’ve ignored the question many times so I can only assume you can’t justify that comment either.
It’s ok I’ll take that as another yield, or is it two?
 
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