Transfer Rumours Iborra

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Why would any football club talk to him about their transfers?

More likely he knows a few agents through his contacts.

He's a massive arsehole always sticking his nose into United business, stirring up bets for Sky. He's very good at acting.

Same reason any club does with any Journo. Somebody on the inside obtains information and sells it.
 
Well he best be asking for a lot of refunds cos most of what he trots out is utter bullshit.
Well that's it isn't it. Supply good information you can charge more and get asked again. Provide poor information you get less and you're not believed in future. Journos work in football consists of being told information rather than any investigative work. It's judgement. All journos are going to be fed a constant stream of bollocks. The fact there's no repercussions for printing bollocks, Journos appear to just print everything they've heard.


Add to that there's quite clearly 'deals' between journos and agents in regards to releasing information, whether it be false but want to generate a move or a new contract of what ever. It makes it even murkier water. You just don't know what to believe anymore.
 
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Well that's it isn't it. Supply good information you can charge more and get asked again. Provide poor information you get less and you're not believed in future. Journos work in football consists of being told information rather than any investigative work. It's judgement. All journos are going to be fed a constant stream of bollocks. The fact there's no repercussions for printing bollocks, Journos appear to just print everything they've heard.


Add to that there's quite clearly 'deals' between journos and agents in regards to releasing information, whether it be false but want to generate a move or a new contract of what ever. It makes it even murkier water. You just don't know what to believe anymore.

That, I think is where a lot of the problems are. Agents generating interest in their players. Nothing more.

££`s only, the truth is irrelevant.
 
Aye but let's be fair, we all whinge about the **** but who doesn't love a good rumour?

Part of the game man.

We do, but in days of old a rumour packed more punch because there was a better chance of it being true. Rumours are fast losing their effectiveness.
 
Has Seaham Hall been knocked down?

They used to be at least 10 players a transfer window holed up in that place. Haven't heard nothing about it for a couple of years now.
 
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Rumours and refereeing mistakes. Bad tackles and injustices.

All the **** things that happen are every bit as much of the game as owt else. I do agree with goal line technology like but mistakes should remain in the game.

Off topic a bit like.
 
Rumours and refereeing mistakes. Bad tackles and injustices.

All the **** things that happen are every bit as much of the game as owt else. I do agree with goal line technology like but mistakes should remain in the game.

Off topic a bit like.
I don't.

Like you say, mistakes and banter is what makes football. It's what we talk about in the pub when that last minute equaliser got wrongly ruled out and we got relegated because of it. It's **** when you are on the receiving end, but that's part and parcel of football, to me.
 
Sunderland are set to miss out on Vicente Iborra after Sevilla had a change of heart.

The La Liga club had agreed to sell the 27-year-old midfielder to the Black Cats, but have changed their mind late in the day.

Iborra and Sevilla were always slightly lukewarm about the transfer, but the amounts of money involved in terms of wages and transfer fee were expected to tip the balance.

But the player is settled in Spain, and it is thought his reluctance to uproot his family was a factor in Sevilla performing a U-turn. Iborra’s entire career has been spent in his homeland.

With the new television money flowing into the club’s coffers this season, Sunderlandcould try to wade in with an offer which tips the balance, but they must weigh up the value of signing a player who is clearly reluctant to come. The initial bid was thought to be in the region of £7m.
 
How much melting downwards will be happening on here, on a scale of 1 to 100, if you lot don't sign anybody before the window shuts?
 
I don't.

Like you say, mistakes and banter is what makes football. It's what we talk about in the pub when that last minute equaliser got wrongly ruled out and we got relegated because of it. It's **** when you are on the receiving end, but that's part and parcel of football, to me.
Amen to that.