Erling Haaland

[SPIDERBOY]

Do they still have "Scots week"? If they do, that'd be the week for him to pay a visit!

Dunno mate,last time i passed through,most places was boarded up.

I think the window cleaner uses a sander.

 

[Sky Blue]

Pep in a stinking mood in the press conference, let’s hope he’s not been given some bad news!

More to do with the moronic questions.

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

You’re right of course, that’s how we all knew about every football club that FSG bought long before the parties had agreed the deals and why we’ve never ever been surprised by a player purchase.

And, of course, why your predictions are never ever wrong.


As I said, matters that are commercially confidential are kept confidential and those matters where confidentiality doesn’t matter are allowed to a wider audience.
If the wider audience thinks it gets to hear everything then more fool the wider audience because that’s not how business works.

FSG?

You seem prepared to die on a hill which does not exist, one which is dismissive of journalists, financial or sporting, who every day gain access to sensitive information from a wide variety of sources.

Commercial confidentially will pass through the hands of departments ranging from legal, HR, medical, family, team-mates.

Those doing the deals at the very top can only control what they can control and cannot legislate for leaks.

I can't speak from an Apple or Facebook perspective, but from a football and media one, a need to know basis does not preclude the flow of information, certainly when a journalist will protect their sources and ensure no blow back.

Players purchases can come out of nowhere, or they can be reported well in advance because an agent (someone with skin in the game) wants to push something over the line.

With regards my own predictions, they aren't such. They are bits of information which come through various channels and I wish to share, even when it is commercially sensitive for me personally.

You originally stated how business does not work like such at the highest level and your caveat is the wider public does not get to hear everything.

Nobody is stating they do, your assertion is that the wider public do not get to hear anything of a sensitive or private nature.

That's simply not the case and never has been, certainly in journalism.

 

[razman]

Injured again. But not a muscle Injury but was tackled in the friendly. Should be ok hopefully soon

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Yeah maybe £250m+ is more the reality :)

Imagine what we could do with double Coutinho money?!

 

[Centurions]

Do they still have "Scots week"? If they do, that'd be the week for him to pay a visit!

I'm still mentally scarred from going in the 60's as a kid when the unwashed horde were there...

 

[Coatigan]

Torres wasn’t brought in as a CF. Like others he played the false 9 but simply scored more and was less involved. So he looked more like a CF yet he wasn’t. He could become one maybe, but not with us.

He played as a CF for us, in the majority of his limited appearences. He plays there for Spain. And now for Barcelona seemingly.

I'm not convinced Alvarez will play as a 'true' CF either, expect he will have to be a bit flexible too.

I too have high hopes for him btw. But it is still a body in for a body out.

 

[Kippaxpete]

FSG?

You seem prepared to die on a hill which does not exist, one which is dismissive of journalists, financial or sporting, who every day gain access to sensitive information from a wide variety of sources.

Commercial confidentially will pass through the hands of departments ranging from legal, HR, medical, family, team-mates.

Those doing the deals at the very top can only control what they can control and cannot legislate for leaks.

I can't speak from an Apple or Facebook perspective, but from a football and media one, a need to know basis does not preclude the flow of information, certainly when a journalist will protect their sources and ensure no blow back.

Players purchases can come out of nowhere, or they can be reported well in advance because an agent (someone with skin in the game) wants to push something over the line.

With regards my own predictions, they aren't such. They are bits of information which come through various channels and I wish to share, even when it is commercially sensitive for me personally.

In keeping with the great British tradition, is this the point at the end of a drunken Saturday night where the wife steps in to scream, "Leave it Terry. He's not worth it!". Frankly, he's not. I think Mr Occupied Palestine is in a minority of one.

 

[Phil1]

Do they still have "Scots week"? If they do, that'd be the week for him to pay a visit!

Yes, it runs from January 1st until December 31st.

 

[Chi-town blues]

Are Madrid fans so thick or is this spanish custom ? How can you treat them like a 3 year old when you have to negotiate and convince its time to go home from play lot ?