City transfer thread

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Guess I'm wrong then. I've always considered wingers as wide players who play up top flanking a lone striker. Oh well, I guess back when i was a kid learning positions of FIFA was the wrong thing to do.

Well the wings are the left and right channels from our half way line to their by line, so any player that lines up in that area as their starting position is a winger.
 
Guess I'm wrong then. I've always considered wingers as wide players who play up top flanking a lone striker. Oh well, I guess back when i was a kid learning positions of FIFA was the wrong thing to do.

The players who play on the wings are generally called wingers, I don't really think it's a topic for debate.
 
Well the wings are the left and right channels from our half way line to their by line, so any player that lines up in that area as their starting position is a winger.

Guess so. Always seen there being a distinction between playing on the flanks in a 4-3-3 - where you actually stay up in line with the striker - and playing on the flanks in a 4-4-2 - after all, in a 4-3-3 you would theoretically have two lines of wingers. But I guess I'm wrong. Wouldn't be the first time.
 
It depends, they could be a wide midfielder, or if positioned slightly higher up such as in a 4-2-3-1, could be considered an inside forward, advanced playmaker or ramdeuter.
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The players who play on the wings are generally called wingers, I don't really think it's a topic for debate.
In the "good old days", many years before we had 442 or 433, long before video games were invented, wingers wore the number 7 or number 11 shirt. The right winger wore 7 and the left winger wore 11. Simples.
 
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No wonder Tony Harper complained yesterday about thread drift.... If you want to discuss playing positions open a new f***ing topic .
 
In the "good old days", many years before we had 442 or 433, long before video games were invented, wingers wore the number 7 or number 11 shirt. The right winger wore 7 and the left winger wore 11. Simples.
I'm not entirely sure what the relationship is between video games and players choosing different numbers?
 
I'm not entirely sure what the relationship is between video games and players choosing different numbers?
A. The point was the players didn't choose their numbers. B. Most youngsters on here seem to get their football knowledge from video games.
 
A. The point was the players didn't choose their numbers. B. Most youngsters on here seem to get their football knowledge from video games.

Growing up I was always an Aussie rules supporter, where the three midfielders are called the 'rovers' or 'followers', with 'wingers' called flankers, so terminology has never been a strong suit.

Still not sure what you call the middle and forward two widemen in a 4-3-3, I guess you'd have 4 wingers?
 
That's pretty much what I thouguht but there's absolutely no way of knowing.

Something not quite relevant to anything here but interesting none the less which I stumbled upon was a detailed explanation of buyout clauses in Spain. Not sure if you're aware but every player hs to hve a buyout clause over there by law. Now these clauses are treated as the player buying out his contract. The league (all transfer payments are made from the buyer to the league then the league passes the money on for those who don't know) demands that the payment for a player to buy out his contract comes from the player himself. Whilst buying clubs will generally pay those fees to players, it makes the overall cost more expensive as those payments to the player in person are treated as income and are subject to income tax (I think that's what it said).

No idea if that's how it works over here or not.
It certainly sounds a weird idea. The player gets money from somebody who is not their employer yet it is treated as income? In the UK the contracts are lodged with the FA/Premier League/Football League (don't know who) but payments are made normally. In the UK any buyout clause is treated as being able to trigger a transfer and is a sale of an intangible asset.
 
Growing up I was always an Aussie rules supporter, where the three midfielders are called the 'rovers' or 'followers', with 'wingers' called flankers, so terminology has never been a strong suit.

Still not sure what you call the middle and forward two widemen in a 4-3-3, I guess you'd have 4 wingers?
Just as I suspected. QED