Erling Haaland

[Petetheblu]

What? How can you have forgotten his 95th minute headed goal winner against the might Baggies

Mate, I got the tattoo and everything.....
























Shit wrong forum.... ;^)

 

[Petetheblu]

Lol Kasper Michael with an S

 

[domalino]

Have you read his Pep biography and seen the access he had to him?

Yes , he has had in the past a close relationship , especially for the biography.

What concerns me about Ballague and others (Romano comes to mind) is that they get to a stage where they feel like they cannot say " I don't know", but rather develop a narrative where they infer that they have inside knowledge of everything.
We have 2 fellahs on Sky that do this regularly, everytime transfer windows come around.
Maybe I am an old sceptic, but where the press and the media are concerned Pep is not too far away from that stance.

Anyway it is often interesting to read your views, but remember we read the biggest loads of shite from supposed sports journalists on a daily basis here.

Ballague was the chief exponent of the "He won't go to Manchester City, he wants to go to United" storyline we had for years.

In fact, I know he was peddling that line on sky after Pep had already signed his contract with City in November 2015.

He knows nothing.

If you want journalists to get the inside line, Pol Ballus, Lu Martin and Marti Perarnau are the ones to listen to. They are Pep's friends after spending a year plus with him daily, and they speak very rarely because they don't need to.

 

[asahartford1]

Ballague was the chief exponent of the "He won't go to Manchester City, he wants to go to United" storyline we had for years.

In fact, I know he was peddling that line on sky after Pep had already signed his contract with City in November 2015.

He knows nothing.

If you want journalists to get the inside line, Pol Ballus, Lu Martin and Marti Perarnau are the ones to listen to. They are Pep's friends after spending a year plus with him daily, and they speak very rarely because they don't need to.

I just couldn't persuade our Brazilian friend-)
And will have a look at those you mentioned, cheers.

 

[Deleted member 87819]

I just couldn't persuade our Brazilian friend-)
And will have a look at those you mentioned, cheers.

If you’re going to forever ignore every journalist that once made a mistake, there will be none left

 

[blueparrot]

If you’re going to forever ignore every journalist that once made a mistake, there will be none left

I just tend to ignore journalists that ply their trade in transfer rumour and gossip on twitter. Because we know for a fact apart from the odd snippet it’s aim is to drive clicks and traffic and not much to do with journalism.

 

[asahartford1]

If you’re going to forever ignore every journalist that once made a mistake, there will be none left

I actually do that ,ignore them . I don't believe they have info from the people that matter.
You are asking me to believe that pep or other club executives give out info to journalists. This is totally counter productive to the transfer business they are trying to achieve.
On the other hand if a journalist writes a match report, a biography, an invited interview, then I am happy to read it, assess it, and occasionally enjoy it.

You quoted an article from the SUN yesterday, why bother to do that ?

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

I actually do that ,ignore them . I don't believe they have info from the people that matter.
You are asking me to believe that pep or other club executives give out info to journalists. This is totally counter productive to the transfer business they are trying to achieve.
On the other hand if a journalist writes a match report, a biography, an invited interview, then I am happy to read it, assess it, and occasionally enjoy it.

You quoted an article from the SUN yesterday, why bother to do that ?

Clubs absolutely do give transfer steers and updates to trusted patch journos.

City do it plenty.

Usually when a name comes out somewhere.

Same reason I was laughing at the Mendes stuff Romano was peddling all summer, as City had already briefed to the trusted at the end of last season he was not a target.

 

[asahartford1]

Clubs absolutely do give transfer steers and updates to trusted patch journos.

City do it plenty.

Usually when a name comes out somewhere.

Same reason I was laughing at the Mendes stuff Romano was peddling all summer, as City had already briefed to the trusted at the end of last season he was not a target.

City , United , Chelsea will all be linked with 50 players though in January by different journalists, none will have a clue.
I realise occasionally a club might want to leak something, but as a general rule, confidentiality and secrecy would be the ideal.

Dias for example, did City brief a journo?
There were a dozen other Cb s nailed on before I heard about Dias.

Of course I bow to your superior knowledge and experience.

 

[blueparrot]

Clubs absolutely do give transfer steers and updates to trusted patch journos.

City do it plenty.

Usually when a name comes out somewhere.

Same reason I was laughing at the Mendes stuff Romano was peddling all summer, as City had already briefed to the trusted at the end of last season he was not a target.

I remember a few times when City have let it be known they aren’t interested in a particular player, not so much the other way round though.

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

City , United , Chelsea will all be linked with 50 players though in January by different journalists, none will have a clue.
I realise occasionally a club might want to leak something, but as a general rule, confidentiality and secrecy would be the ideal.

Dias for example, did City brief a journo?
There were a dozen other Cb s nailed on before I heard about Dias.

Of course I bow to your superior knowledge and experience.

It purely depends on what's in it for City, nobody is under any illusions on that score.

City will usually send a round-Robin email out to a select few, whether that be to knock something down completely on a reported transfer target, or to hand a steer on where it actually is at that stage.

More in terms of management, rather than divulging anything that would compromise a deal that is under wraps.

Invariably, someone always blabs, so City try and keep people sweet the best they can.

Dias was a late bloomer, but City had made it clear all summer that Koulibaly was an issue, because we wouldn't deal with Napoli.

That weekend, prior to Dias, we also bid for Kounde, and the club were obviously hedging their bets at that stage, not wanting to give chapter and verse and put anything at risk.

I love the game of cat and mouse.

 

[Gaz (FMwkdsoul)]

I remember a few times when City have let it be known they aren’t interested in a particular player, not so much the other way round though.

Yeah, they are usually pretty quick to brief when they drop out, rather be used by agents as a negotiation piece once they walk away from the table.

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

I remember a few times when City have let it be known they aren’t interested in a particular player, not so much the other way round though.

When it comes to the other way around, City will generally run it by Txiki first.

They will play the game with you, but you have to come to them with the name most of the time, admittedly.

They won't lie to you if it's near the money.

 

[asahartford1]

It purely depends on what's in it for City, nobody is under any illusions on that score.

City will usually send a round-Robin email out to a select few, whether that be to knock something down completely on a reported transfer target, or to hand a steer on where it actually is at that stage.

More in terms of management, rather than divulging anything that would compromise a deal that is under wraps.

Invariably, someone always blabs, so City try and keep people sweet the best they can.

Dias was a late bloomer, but City had made it clear all summer that Koulibaly was an issue, because we wouldn't deal with Napoli.

That weekend, prior to Dias, we also bid for Kounde, and the club were obviously hedging their bets at that stage, not wanting to give chapter and verse and put anything at risk.

I love the game of cat and mouse.

Koulibaly, lots of journalists said we were buying him.
I never thought for one moment we would, were all those journalists so bad at their job , or were they trying to stir a hornets nest.

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

Koulibaly, lots of journalists said we were buying him.
I never thought for one moment we would, were all those journalists so bad at their job , or were they trying to stir a hornets nest.

They were know-nowts, basically repeating the shite being spouted in Italy on behalf of De Laurentis trying to use City's name to flush out other buyers.

We had walked away and made if clear Napoli weren't a club we would readily do business with because of previous.

Most of the trusted City reporters steered clear.

 

[Deleted member 87819]

You quoted an article from the SUN yesterday, why bother to do that ?

This is the second time I’ve had to explain that I quoted it exactly to dismiss the information

 

[asahartford1]

⁸

This is the second time I’ve had to explain that I quoted it exactly to dismiss the information

The Sun reported an Alien landing and the Queen chasing rabbits in the garden yesterday-)

 

[birch villa]

⁸

The Sun reported an Alien landing and the Queen chasing rabbits in the garden yesterday-)

Glad the queen's on the mend

 

[asahartford1]

Glad the queen's on the mend

Perhaps it was the Queen spotted on the landing, and an Alien chasing rabbits.

 

[cjn]

They were know-nowts, basically repeating the shite being spouted in Italy on behalf of De Laurentis trying to use City's name to flush out other buyers.

We had walked away and made if clear Napoli weren't a club we would readily do business with because of previous.

Most of the trusted City reporters steered clear.

Didn't you say we were interested? My memory is shit but we were talking about Koulibaly that whole summer, there had to have been something in it.