i reckon we'll get through the group.
Luke Shaw | Deal done! Almost...
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Have you seen the other teams in the group?
England will do well to finish 3rd
you gotta have sum aims, and were not eacly going to win the world cup so i hope we get through the group!
I was on a bus when I saw Andy Cole had signed, over someone's shoulder in a newspaper. Not a sniff of a rumour first.
I don't remember any speculation before the day we signed Anderson and Nani.
Mind you, that didn't turn out quite as well as we all hoped.
It could be almost that way again if he just deleted the transfer forum
I can't remember if this is something that's developed with the introduction of the transfer window, SSN or twitter, but newspaper rumours have been around since as long as i can remember.
Yeah, that was brilliant. Ando and Nani generally blindsided everyone on here, and on the say day too.
You haven't got the heart of a muppet, Pogue.
I, on the other hand, was born to revel in the elation and despair of the transfer window.
You'll go to any lengths to pretend you don't read The Sun, won't you?
I think that the problem today is the selling club. Its always convenient to the selling club to leak the news to try and trigger an auction between two or more big clubs. In the past that wasn't really needed since no one could outbid United (unless of course it was a foreign club).
Sincher produced an excellent example with Ando/Nani. In these particular deals there was a minimum fee clause which removed any chance of auctioning. Hence why they were pretty straightforward.
There was plenty of speculation about Nani. Anderson came out of nowhere though.
Yeah, that's true with actual transfers, most of what is printed is based on nothing, which is suppose is most of the 'noise'.
I've given up reading almost completely.
I agree however I do believe that sometimes rumors are being fueled by something tangible. Lets face it, Southampton has all to gain and nothing to lose with the fact that Luke Shaw's bid had gone public.
It was teletext where I used to find out who we had bought when I was a kiddo.
I used to watch games on teletext.
After walking home from school through 15 miles of snow. Barefoot.
I really did watch games on teletext though. I sometimes remind myself of that when I'm getting worked up about a bad stream.
I was watching games on Teletext only as far back as 8 years ago. What kind of backwater do I live in?
Jaysus. I can only imagine. I thought teletext was switched off before then. I remember a big kerfuffle about it. Didn't it die a death around about the time the first sky boxes came out?
90 pages and the transfer window hasn't even opened yet. This has the potential to become a record breaking thread should it stretch beyond the world cup with no sort of announcement. I hope this deal is completed as soon as possible after this recent trend of reporters being so certain of this transfer happening.
Loved teletext. I watched the 6:2 over Arsenal on that because my radio died. I remember loving the transfer news on there but that was complete twaddle most of the time as well. I remember telling everyone at school we had signed Batistuta, I bet one kid a tenner, never paid him though. Didn't have a tenner.
First I knew of teddy signing was via teletext aka the shit internet of the past
I loved all those phone in numbers to find out the latest gossip and transfer rumours teletext used to advertise.
So, is there any new information other than the rumours his parents are looking for a house in Chesire?
Oh that brings memories. The Italian media used to have a news page for every Serie A team. They updated it 2 times a day (although during the silly season it would be updated 3-4 times). During that summer I learnt the Fiorentina code by heart
The transfer window opened the day after the last game of the season.
Did you ring them? What did they say?
Yep after a load of United mags and articles shat on the idea of him taking over from Cantona
He didn't do too bad.never saw a bad game on teletext
Premium rate phone lines staffed by folk simply regurgitating stuff from the newspapers or just unashamedly making it up and charging you silly money for the pleasure.
Check this new Teletext thing, it sounds exciting.
I watched that at Highbury, I still bear the mental scars.
My dad was obsessed with it. He used to use it for every sports related news he could find. He'd spend hours on it.
Lou macari thinks that this deal is done and dusted
i doubt he would have any inside info
It did? I thought it opens on the 1st of July.
How? It only had about 10, very short, sports pages at any given time!
That's quite a bold statement to say on mutv
He'd look at the rugby, football, hockey(Irish club league), and other bits and pieces. At times I'd be watching TV and he'd come in and ask for the remote. He'd spend a good 10 minutes looking at it before we eventually got it back off him.
never. Got bollocked as a kid for phoning a weekly news line thing and ran up a £400 quid bill at me nans. The hiding I got from me dad meant i never dared again
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