Transfer Rumours January '23 Transfer Thread

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The problem is fans crave information on Club activity. That’s not exclusive to us either. Then when articles are written on leads, they get ripped to shreds or ridiculed. What’s the alternative that would keep the majority happy? Report nothing? Silence in print and broadcast?

If you don’t like it, don’t read it or don’t listen to it. It’s pretty simple really.
 
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Cityzen said:
“If he had less spelling and grammatical errors in his articles perhaps I'd be a little bit harsh on him,” Maybe you should have hacked* before posting about basic elements…
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* Hacked or checked? :emoticon-0100-smile




The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.
 
My hope is that Sinik has a good second half of the season back in Turkey, comes back to us in the summer with more confidence and fights for a place. I like the kid. He’s got a bit of aggression and fight in him that you don’t often expect of wingers. I remember last game he played for City he came on as a sub and did everything humanly possible to keep the ball in play even though it was 99% destined to go out for a throw-in. From what I’ve seen of him for City, he’s not lazy nor shirks challenges.
 
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Howdentiger2 said:
He and others read here, whether he or they use stuff from her can probably never be proved one way or another. But yesterday's very poorly thrown together article using a quote from Rosie that was said a few weeks ago and thrown together with "unnamed L1 club" with no other substance was the first time I've thought hmmmm. The timing and words used may just be a huge coincidence though.

Doesn't really matter either way. 99% of the people reading it won't have a clue nor care where the info came from and hull live won't either as it's just another click bait article for them
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Reading a board like this is probably a decent way for him, or any journo, to get tip offs of breaking news stories, rumours from the club etc.

BUT, in his position he has a responsibility not to post such things without making some effort to fact-check them. Unlike most of us he can ask the club for comment and have a reasonable expectation that they might reply.
 
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Help! said:
Reading a board like this is probably a decent way for him, or any journo, to get tip offs of breaking news stories, rumours from the club etc.

BUT, in his position he has a responsibility not to post such things without making some effort to fact-check them. Unlike most of us he can ask the club for comment and have a reasonable expectation that they might reply.
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You'd think so wouldn't you, but the article yesterday had none of that, it was a quote Rosie gave him a few weeks ago re Scott and just "unnamed L1 club" nothing backed up or comment from the club etc ( unless I missed it ). Absolutely no issue with it. If he / hull live want to post that kind of article then crack on
 
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Howdentiger2 said:
You'd think so wouldn't you, but the article yesterday had none of that, it was a quote Rosie gave him a few weeks ago re Scott and just "unnamed L1 club" nothing backed up or comment from the club etc ( unless I missed it ). Absolutely no issue with it. If he / hull live want to post that kind of article then crack on
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Yep, there’s room in the market for both proper journalism and click-bait sensationalism.

It’s a bit disappointing to me that there seems to be less of the former about these days, but commercially you give the market what it wants I guess.
 
Help! said:
Yep, there’s room in the market for both proper journalism and click-bait sensationalism.

It’s a bit disappointing to me that there seems to be less of the former about these days, but commercially you give the market what it wants I guess.
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Ironically, the likes of Vox and Vice are doing more cutting-edge investigative journalism these days than more traditional media. I watched a Vice documentary on YouTube a while ago and a couple of their journalists went to North Korea. Quite surreal. Vice also provided early evidence from 2014 that Russian forces were operating in Donbas without insignia alongside pro-Russian Ukrainian rebels.
 
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PLT said:
I don't really even accept that the information on here is ahead of his. I can't think of a time that's been shown. Howden earlier declared that Baz had copied his information about Scott going to a League 1 side, but there's no real evidence of that, and frankly the idea that Baz is just watching not606 posts and then reporting as fact things that are claimed anonymously on here is ridiculous. He's obviously got some information about Scott's situation if he's at the stage of saying he's definitely going there. I'm also thinking back to last summer with the transfer saga that turned out to be Oulad M'Hand. Baz knew about that one from early on and absolutely no one guessed the name until he was eventually able to share it. On here we were pretty sure it was going to be Josh Onomah...
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I wasn’t suggesting he was getting stuff from here, it’s just that it feels like some are criticising him for being behind/wrong when he can only go off what he was told. With Celi, for all we know he could have been told it wasn’t happening by somebody who didn’t know the situation had changed, he prints his story and then learns to the contrary. He can’t help that with having to work in a short time frame. His source might need updating, though, if he’s feeding him incorrect stuff.
 
Kalman said:
Ironically, the likes of Vox and Vice are doing more cutting-edge investigative journalism these days than more traditional media. I watched a Vice documentary on YouTube a while ago and a couple of their journalists went to North Korea. Quite surreal. Vice also provided early evidence from 2014 that Russian forces were operating in Donbas without insignia alongside pro-Russian Ukrainian rebels.
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They do very good work, as do Byline Times (although I’m never sure of them because of their owner, his intentions never felt genuine).
 
Help! said:
Reading a board like this is probably a decent way for him, or any journo, to get tip offs of breaking news stories, rumours from the club etc.

BUT, in his position he has a responsibility not to post such things without making some effort to fact-check them. Unlike most of us he can ask the club for comment and have a reasonable expectation that they might reply.
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I mean, he could just ask me via DM.
 
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