It's Quiet - a new dawn

[Uptop]

How many times we heard stories like these over the years that come to nothing

 

[Andouble]

Not a journalist around who knows enough about this deal to say what they've said without spilling the name in my view. Isn't it an industry measured on credibility? When you've got specifics you use them.

in the age of the internet and social media and how we know what each player has had for breakfast each day, I find it incredibly hard to believe that a world record transfer is going on behind the scenes and no one is any the wiser. There's just too many people involved in these deals for zero to leak, between buying club/selling club/agents/players friends/etc.

 

[richards30]

Have we got season tickets to shift?

It might calm the masses over prices if they started leaking definite targets? People might be slightly happier if some world class players were coming in?

 

[KingOdin]

my hope for the mysterious player:
1 Griezmann
2 Mbappè Lottin
3 Dele Alli

 

[Tugay One Cup]

We must have signed Messi more times than united have re-signed Ronaldo by now, surely?

Or is it Neymar? Or Suarez? Or Pogba? It's hard to keep track when you're smashing the transfer record on a biannual basis.

 

[birchwoodgingerste]

We was warned regarding fake news maybe they knew something!:))

 

[pudge]

How many times we heard stories like these over the years that come to nothing

It makes the gullible talk about and add pages upon pages about it on here and the like so job done really.

Rinse, repeat come January.

 

[bboy]

in the age of the internet and social media and how we know what each player has had for breakfast each day, I find it incredibly hard to believe that a world record transfer is going on behind the scenes and no one is any the wiser. There's just too many people involved in these deals for zero to leak, between buying club/selling club/agents/players friends/etc.

I can only compare it to tech and videogames. A company like Intel knows the exact specification and almost exact performance of what it will be selling in 6 months time. Thousands of employees will know, and so will the motherboard manufacturers, and other manufacturing partners. From directors to sales to PA's, to people getting paid peanuts on the production lines. Millions of emails, phone calls, conversations and meetings. Yet info only ever leaks 2-3 weeks before launch - it's planted.

Add to that hundreds and hundreds of journalists will have been shown the tech months in advance. And prototype electronics have to undergo several forms of testing by insurance companies, the FCC, the EU, before it can even be shipped overseas. Plus, the people who write operating systems have to know and write their code well in advance.



It's the same with Games. We really don't know what we are getting until the embargo lifts.

Never underestimate the power of the NDA.

 

[Blue Coop]

I can only compare it to tech and videogames. A company like Intel knows the exact specification and almost exact performance of what it will be selling in 6 months time. Thousands of employees will know, and so will the motherboard manufacturers, and other manufacturing partners. Millions of emails, phone calls, conversations and meetings. Yet info only ever leaks 2-3 weeks before launch - it's planted.

Add to that hundreds and hundreds of journalists will have been shown the tech months in advance. And prototype electronics have to undergo several forms of testing by insurance companies, the FCC, the EU, before it can even be shipped overseas. Plus, the people who write operating systems have to know and write their code well in advance.



It's the same with Games. We really don't know what we are getting until the embargo lifts.

Never underestimate the power of the NDA.

What use would a football journalist be signing up to non-disclosure agreements?

 

[Decepticon]

How many times we heard stories like these over the years that come to nothing

You think our owners can't pull this off? We're the richest club in world football and I truly believe that we're going to flex our muscles and smash the transfer market this summer especially with Pep at the helm!