I generally think the ones we are linked with are the ones we are definitely not signing.
Why do you do it to yourself?
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I don't really get too invested in it.
I find it a bit unnecessary to constantly be checking Twitter, reading loads of completely contradicting opinions. and reading completely insignificant 'updates' and trying to attach importance to them.
When something significant happens, it'll be on BBC, and I'm not bothered about knowing breaking news before everyone else.
I've always thought it would be quite fun, one year, to completely avoid football news, and then start the new season without having a clue who's moved where. Would be tricky to manage (and I'd probably have to block a few football sites) but quite exciting.
I find it a bit unnecessary to constantly be checking Twitter, reading loads of completely contradicting opinions. and reading completely insignificant 'updates' and trying to attach importance to them.
When something significant happens, it'll be on BBC, and I'm not bothered about knowing breaking news before everyone else.
I've always thought it would be quite fun, one year, to completely avoid football news, and then start the new season without having a clue who's moved where. Would be tricky to manage (and I'd probably have to block a few football sites) but quite exciting.
You miserable sod!!!
Silly season is the best time to be a football fan. You've got to take any news and run away with it because every so often it might just come true.
The mass hysteria and irrationality are very enjoyable. The Vidal thread last year was beautiful, it was like catching a wave. You go in to read the thread, at some pages it was considered a done dealio --> euphoria broke out, then followed by news of him stayng in in Italy. The suspense followed by panic, anger and dramatic rants is just too good 
Because it's awesome. I prefer when there is football, but transfer season is quite entertaining. It's a love hate relationship as it can mess with the mind though.
And I get to find more kermit gifs to use.
And I get to find more kermit gifs to use.
I was all set to enjoy transfer season. It was all set to bestress free as I was under the impression we couldn't sign anybody, now presidential election and the ability to sing players, it'll be a fascinating time too.
To be fair, this one is pretty different to many recent ones so far. Everybody seems to have a once-bitten-twice-shy attitude and isn't getting too invested in us getting any particular player. It's all a lot more like "let's wait and see, and trust the judgment of LVG and Woody"... or maybe more "anybody we sign has to be an improvement on the current shower"
Ive not been as bothered this summer. I think because we're being linked with literally everybody its diluted the excitement. I remember the days of Sneijder and even Thiago...i was practically living on Sky Sports.
I was obsessed with silly season until Moyes came and gave me clarity. I'm grateful to him. I will occasionally check rumors but before Moyes I could sit all day waiting for some lousy rumor from Tancredi Palmeri. Really 99,9% is just nonsense, no point wasting time reading it.
The problem for many people is they live in a dream world and seem unable to figure out which rumours are realistic. Then they get all worked up and moan at the club for stupid things.
It's ace because it's silly season where men get to enjoy the male equivalent of celeb gossip. We laugh at certain women mag like Heat as just nonsense but when we get down to it this is exactly the same. Papers will link United to every single player on earth if they had the time and space as jut doing so guarantees them an extra 30-100K page clicks minimally which in terms of ad click revenue is a huge number.
It's all about the hunt as well not in the getting. I tend to find player that we're linked with ages before they become mainstream media targets, the likes of Depay, Hazard, Sanchez yadda yadda yadda and study them in their seasons to see if they would bring anything to the team. Transfers are all part of the game and the best bet is to just it back and enjoy the ride. Now when are we signing Hamsik.
It's all about the hunt as well not in the getting. I tend to find player that we're linked with ages before they become mainstream media targets, the likes of Depay, Hazard, Sanchez yadda yadda yadda and study them in their seasons to see if they would bring anything to the team. Transfers are all part of the game and the best bet is to just it back and enjoy the ride. Now when are we signing Hamsik.
It would be foolish to say that the transfer season isn't an exciting time.
I'm sure even in the 60s or 70s it would have been more exciting just seeing your team sign a random Englishman that you've never heard of before. Sure there wasn't twitter back then to hype up or bullshit about player x or player y joining the team - but it's still exciting nevertheless.
Regardless of how boring it is at the moment hearing the same recycled bullcrap, it's still enthralling to think who we'll eventually sign and how our team will look like come August.
Taking a break from football? Impossible.
I'm sure even in the 60s or 70s it would have been more exciting just seeing your team sign a random Englishman that you've never heard of before. Sure there wasn't twitter back then to hype up or bullshit about player x or player y joining the team - but it's still exciting nevertheless.
Regardless of how boring it is at the moment hearing the same recycled bullcrap, it's still enthralling to think who we'll eventually sign and how our team will look like come August.
Taking a break from football? Impossible.
One thing for sure,transfer window is not for everyone.
It's become really fecking boring.
The "Transfer Tweets" page at the top is a god send. I just check that once a day and that's pretty much my involvement with the transfer window.
The "Transfer Tweets" page at the top is a god send. I just check that once a day and that's pretty much my involvement with the transfer window.
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I'm bored of it now.
It's clear we are not giving away much info as a club, so everything written is complete speculation. Before there was at least 5% briefing, 95% speculation.
It's clear we are not giving away much info as a club, so everything written is complete speculation. Before there was at least 5% briefing, 95% speculation
.@OP: It's never the same in the Winter … because football is still on! Muppet summer season is simply a knee-jerk testosterone release reaction for most people who do not have the footy to get all worked up about!
Same, I really get fed up with these long sagas that more often than not just lead to disappointment and frustration and it's become even worse with Twitter and the amount of rumours that circulate because of it. It's got to the point where I almost don't care whether De Gea stays or goes anymore (which sounds insane I know) I'd rather it was just done or not because this not knowing makes it harder to prepare for the new season.
It's not very difficult to avoid if one hates it so much.
I love it. There should be more transfer windows.
There really shouldn't.
There shouldnt be a transfer window at all. It should be like it was when I was a kid, you just signed whoever whenever you wanted. No windows, no "silly season", none of this loan shit either.
Good lord with Twitter, 24 hr sports, etc you would kill people if they went through this 365 days a year!
Youre probably right and I havent considered this from all sides so maybe its not such a good idea. But the whole point is, when there is no window, it isnt like this. Before the window was introduced I dont remember such intensity in muppetry. Because it was all year round, you never had this kind of pressure build up, there was no mania to football transfer business. It was only after they introduced the window that the whole thing became such a circus.
Its like people coming and going from a mall. Its orderly, its fine. People hold doors open for each other. There is no drama. But as soon as everyone needs to get in (like when Ikea have a sale and people are queuing up outside waiting for it to open) or when everyone needs to get out (fire alarm) at the same time, it becomes a disorderly scrum.
I remember in the Di Maria thread last summer a few of us were trying to find his plane to Manchester for his medical on some air traffic website. We were practically stalking him
I love the moments like that.
I love the moments like that.
Because it's all a game, and the more you experience it you learn the rules, and it becomes a bit of fun once you learn which is bullshit an what has legs. Transfer sagas are brilliant, that rush of spamming a refresh button while at work or on the train etc waiting for new news after BBC has confirmed something
More exciting that going to a match and watching us (or your team) play? Sorry but I won't ever be as excited reading a BS news article supposedly linking us to the next big thing as I was watching us against Barcelona in 98 as a 9 year old, or when OT erupted when Vidic scored against Bayern the other season. Frankly it's a sorry state of affairs in football when the transfer window is as much a spectacle for fans as actual games are, it's actually starting to turn me off football in fact.
Definitley not uncomparable I'd say
Don't read too much into my post. I just like the excitment of the transfer window, it is the same kind of excitment that makes certain people go an play footballmanager. I just like the fact that during the transferwindow things can change at the club and those possible changes are exciting. It is fun to discuss them with fellow football fans and it also fun to see exciting players coming to the club but it is ofc something completley different than going to a match and feeling the thrill of a game and the ecstasy of winning.
I completley understand there maybe some people who don't give a rats ass about which transfers we are going to do. Or maybay they are interested but not in discussing the rumours or playing footballmanager and discussing lign ups or possible formations. I understand 100% some people just wanna read about a deal when it is completed in the newspapaer and for the rest don't understand all fuzz about transfer season.
But I'am not one of you, I'am a muppet
I used to love all the rumours when I was a kid now I can't stand it. I don't believe any of it.
It has started to tire me. Not the tweets and the 'news' which are so stupid sometimes its fun, its the things some posters write.
Dream. Believe. Achieve.
I only really check if there has been something confirmed and if I'm really bored I might read the twitter thread to get a good laugh about the stupid shit those sport "journos" write to earn their money with.
It baffles me every year how much people believe made up stories. Then I think about Karl Pilkington saying "it was in a book" the sheep bit from Arrested Development and just shake my head.