They have no insider knowledge. I have a pal who is a sports journo (or was). He can make up and print (and indeed did) what he wants as long as there are no direct quotes. Anything else goes. This is why any story without direct quotes or pictures of people meeting other people are more than likely fabrications or regurgitated stories from somewhere else (Marca). "Advisors close to...", "sources reveal" and other similar phrases basically just mean "stop reading, only guesses here". Even with direct quotes you need to make sure that you listen/watch/get a transcript of the ENTIRE interview or conversation because if the journos can paraphrase and snip/glue together different parts of the interview to change the meaning then they will and they can. All they have to do is write the article in such a way that it makes you _think_ something different to the truth as long as they can back up that the quotes are actual quotes. Its such bullshit, it really is.
vimhawk & Spurm, Good posts, most of us I think know what you say is true, but it's good to spell it out from time to time. One of the attractions of a site like this is the sifting of evidence from the welter of misinformation that eminates from the media. We help one another to get closer to the truth than otherwise would be the case. The internet is a great resource for diseminating truths as well of course as spreading lies and rumours.
I actually come here for my transfer news now. Its quicker (a LOT quicker) than the official site* and the BBC** and the bullshit filter (members) is first-class Even knowing a sports journo i still get suckered in occasionally. Even if i don't its still infuriating. I picked up the news about the ongoing Bale contract talks from this site today before seeing it on the screens in the foyer at work * Chadli! I know there was probably i's and t's but he'd been with the squad training for DAYS before it was on the OS as far as i could tell. ** who i still just about trust on transfers as they tend not to jump the gun
Going back to Bale for a sec. Getting £80mill doesn't mean we can just go out and sign 2/3 top players and become a better side. It's much more difficult than that, especially when we would have less of a draw to our club without Balke and clubs would know that we've got £80mill in our back pocket. Also top players don't have a set price, look at Lloris, Vertonghen and Berbatov as examples, we've paid more for lesser players in the past and whilst Berba was a top striker, we paid less than half than what it would take us to sign Soldado, another top striker. All that aside, if he wanted to stay I wouldn't want us to sell him even if we were offered £80 billion! There are certain things as fans we should find more important, like having a player developat our club into one of the best of his generation, to me that seems something I'll look back on more fondly than when when we sold him and bought a load of established players from all over the globe. To be honest, I expect him to ask to leave at the end of this coming season unless we do something miraculous and challenge for the title, which makes me want to make sure we keep him all the more.
If there were a standard line on Bale, it would be: stay one more season, then leave unless we get CL, or more. We really don't know, because it's in Bale's interest not to show his cards, and that's what he's doing. I certainly wouldn't be surprised to see him go next year. But the possibility that he's just letting the rumors swirl to negotiate a better contract with Spurs exist. That's what I would do if I was him, I think, even though I like Spain and speak Spanish. Things are going great, why **** them up? Why be the fourth recent Spurs star who's ****ed their career by going to Real?
with £80bn we wouldn't need to buy a replacement, we could just buy and bankrupt any club that dared creep above us in the league. In fact, why bother wasting time. We could just buy ALL other English clubs and bankrupt them and become the EPL champs for eternity. Saves a lot of bother that, and we wouldn't need any players to worry about each summer. Also, we wouldn't have to watch football, none of us like it anyway
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepag...lls-Tottenham-I-want-to-join-Real-Madrid.html HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA This has now gotten absurd. Instead of providing a report with no quotes - Marca (thesun is link but story is taken from Marca) have decide to provide quotes they "think" he said. Im getting to the point where I want Bale to stay or go. Fed up of all this.
sound's almost word for word they story they used for Modric,It's all total B/S+ the Sun is about 2 day's late with this
This is the same as the fabregas saga with barca, even im sick of hearing about bale lol. I really dont see him going this year, I think he will stay and see how things go next year. I know how annoying it is tho, everyday its the same old **** lol.
It's all made up, as we all know. But why do so many different media sources want him out? why are they stirring it? It's so ****ing boring. can't they find a new bullshit story for everyone's sake?
Marca 25-7 Avenida de San Luis Madrid 28033 Judging by Google, there don't seem to be any CCTV cameras around there, so it seems pretty easy to dump a couple of dead animals (or, better yet, the remains of Santiago Bernabeu Yeste) on the doorstep
I don't understand how British journalists can be so hard up for a story. We know that Marca makes all of this **** up, they know that Marca makes all of this **** up, yet they reprint it as if it has some substance. Still, it's easier than working, I guess.
This. I agree it would appear the British media are desperate for him to leave Spurs. They must all be Chavs and Gooners. Think they would all regret it mind if he left the PL. He is a joy to watch week in week out even for the neutral one would think.
Exactly. As P.T. Barnum once said, " Nobody ever lost money underestimating the taste of the public "
I don't think they want him to go but all these "journalists " care about right now is filling empty back pages with bullsh*t .No doubt when he is still here Sept 1st they will start going on about how great it is that he stayed and how they all knew he wouldn't go!!
**** me that is terrible. I'll have to try and find out if that is allowed. Quote marks typically mean, you guessed it, a quote but they've preceded it by "reported to have said". So not a quote. The fact they've said it's from marca probably ensures they are ok to print it. Total bs, why would he be in contract talks today if he said that last week.
Yep, the same media that have been linking David Luiz, Mata - and all our other players away on international duty - away from the club all summer Chelsea are as popular down Fleet Street as a Nazi in a Synagogue.
