Transfer Rumours transfer thread fact and fiction

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some of these “ITK’s” are extremely convincing and I’ve definitely been fooled by some in the past.

I’ve been watching this one for most of the transfer window. Thought it was worth a punt when he/she had about 100 followers.

and it’s definitely the most convincing potential “fake” I’ve followed so far. There’s been some information that he/she has broken before anyone else that’s happened. Joe Hart for example. - said this was happening 24 hours before any other media outlet. 24 hours after that, the rest reported it. 24 hours after that, he signed.

will never know whether it’s real or fake, but it’s been very convincing at times, and I’ve seen stuff on there that’s been reported even before the likes of Fab.

not saying I believe the account by any means, but the info on there has generally been quite good (even if it’s copied).

RE Hart, I guarantee you a journalist somewhere broke the news before they did though mate (OR a solid enough ITK on SC or elsewhere).

They’ve been outed 3 or 4 times already but somehow their persistence has kept people jumping on the bandwagon. They even gave the “oh my source gave me the wrong info” line one time which was pretty funny.

It’s a 16-17 year old kid who I’m almost certain was “king of the lane”, that’s just smart enough to look in the right places. Local journos like Ally Gold/ Dan KP etc are the absolute best journos to follow and there’s obviously other clubs who have their own ones like those two. So follow them, copy their stuff whilst throwing in a few educated guesses and in no time you’ll look ITK.

They’re similar to that Epllion you and I spoke about a year or so ago. A high level fake, lol.
 
Man City badly need a left back, Benjamin Mendy is terrible. Wonder who they will buy for £50million before the deadline on Monday
This is the genius of Pep and Man City, they identify the area that is weak in the team and then go out and rectify it with no messing about. It’s absolute genius I don’t know why other teams don’t copy them tbh
 
This is the genius of Pep and Man City, they identify the area that is weak in the team and then go out and rectify it with no messing about. It’s absolute genius I don’t know why other teams don’t copy them tbh
Something to do with 99.9% of clubs in world football not having the finances to go out and do that

Having a bottomless pit of money is key to the "no messing about" part
 
Not being funny but the buy option fee for Foyth is terrible business for you lot.

More than what they paid for him so good deal imo. I don’t think Foyth is suited to English football, maybe in the future he will be but a move is best for everyone
 
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Not being funny but the buy option fee for Foyth is terrible business for you lot.
On the most basic, Football Manager side, it's not a bad deal as we'd make £14m on a player we paid £8m for who never got established in the team

In terms of there being something other than money in football, my biggest gripe (other than what I've been saying for months, namely we should keep him as a right-sided Ben Davies and dump Aurier) is the odds are that there's a good chance he blows up in La Liga and a couple of seasons down the line he'll be a £30-40m centre back, which will no doubt be followed by various articles asking how we let him slip through our fingers
 
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Not being funny but the buy option fee for Foyth is terrible business for you lot.

It’s just under double what we paid for him mate. Add in the likely loan fee and we probably will be getting double our money overall for someone who’s barely played.

Most of us here will tell you we’ve ****ed his development though (just like KWP) and in a couple years he’ll probably be worth a lot more. Should’ve loaned him out a couple years ago, with more experience he’d have probably been in the XI by now when you look at how **** Dier and Toby have been.