Dave Jones/Club not happy about RR/Football Insider getting leaked info?


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Standard business practice to keep your cards close to your chest and not want anything to get out, so I fully understand where he's coming from. The club want to announce these things not a fans website. But it's the nature of the game
It ain't rocket science........it's impossible to keep things quiet....firstly the agent has a duty to get the best deal for client so will touting them around as many clubs as possible..secondly the player wil tell their significant others and they will tell and on and on........
 
There was something strange about the way we pulled out of the Gallacher deal.

Could we have been working on both Gallacher & Cirkin at the same time?

When Gallacher was leaked were we forced to pull out or risk losing Cirkin?
There was something strange about the way we pulled out of the Gallacher deal.

Could we have been working on both Gallacher & Cirkin at the same time?

When Gallacher was leaked were we forced to pull out or risk losing Cirkin?
There was also something a little odd about Monaco saying Mannone was injured after he was linked to us, only for Mannone to post some picture or other himself on Instagram declaring himself fit
There was also something a little odd about Monaco saying Mannone was injured after he was linked to us, only for Mannone to post some picture or other himself on Instagram declaring himself fit
And the fact Jebbison was at our games in the crowd but didn't end up signing
And the fact Jebbison was at our games in the crowd but didn't end up signing
So several 'odd' occurrences during the window / signings potentially disrupted because of 'leaks'
 
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There was something strange about the way we pulled out of the Gallacher deal.

Could we have been working on both Gallacher & Cirkin at the same time?

When Gallacher was leaked were we forced to pull out or risk losing Cirkin?

There was also something a little odd about Monaco saying Mannone was injured after he was linked to us, only for Mannone to post some picture or other himself on Instagram declaring himself fit

And the fact Jebbison was at our games in the crowd but didn't end up signing

So several 'odd' occurrences during the window / signings potentially disrupted because of 'leaks'
Pretty obvious that Gallacher was our target because we never thought Cirkin was available, then he came on the market and we moved quickly.
 
So? He’s a journalist so will report news he gets. It’s not his problem if it was leaked to him. It’s whoever leaked it that’s in bother

That’s quite a simplistic interpretation. The vast majority of gossip was already out there on Twitter, a swirling mass of unaccountable tittle tattle.

The Mannone story was different, trumpeted as an exclusive from “sources on his side”. The author had his full name front and centre on the article claiming to have a direct link to the man himself.

All the club has to do is get on social media, find any link between Mannone and this journalist and they’ve reasons to suspend Mannone and investigate the leak.

The source is indeed in bother but has also been severely let down by the journalist in question. It’s almost as if he missed his journalistic standards and ethics class at imaginary university.
 
This is a false equivalence imo.
Not one bit. It’s the same as someone working for the benefits office complaining about fraudulent benefits claims while claiming benefits fraudulently. His job is literally to broadcast the result of leaks from football clubs. Now he’s moaning because of the leaks from a football club. He can do one.
 
Not one bit. It’s the same as someone working for the benefits office complaining about fraudulent benefits claims while claiming benefits fraudulently. His job is literally to broadcast the result of leaks from football clubs. Now he’s moaning because of the leaks from a football club. He can do one.
Nah, it’s not the same. Not all news comes from leaks from football clubs. Info can be given freely. Info received via leaks is often checked or verified with he clubs. We don’t know why they choose to run or not run stories. It’s not black and white.
 
Bit strange imo. In any deal where quite a few people need to know details you're going to get leaks of some sort. If anything things have been kept more in house recently, some of the signings have pretty much come out of the blue. Unless there's a chance of the leak sabotaging the deal I don't really see why they'd be arsed. All that matters is that we've had a good window and finally look to have some positivity, I wouldn't worry (certainly not publicly) about something that seems pretty minor in the grand scheme of things

most of the leaks were too late in the day to make a difference it would seem, so not sure why he is tetchy about it……its not as if our newrecruits are household names either
 
I just think he's probably not the one to be saying it to be honest, given his job revolves around it. They can be privately a bit frustrated obviously, but he's just made himself look a bit daft imo.

And its not like the leaks seem to have caused any problems. No harm done, and as someone rightly said on the scale of directors running their mouths its way down the list for the last few years.
Depends. The theory about union berlin buying Dajaku is plausible - and if so, would have cost us another signing with the arsenal kid loan. There are probably other ways that a leak could have cost safc. I understand it seems a little strange to see a Sky employee say that - although Jones is well away from the tabloidy side of their coverage these days - but the truth is this is someone who is involved in safc representing a position that is absolutely the position of the club itself. Nowt to get annoyed about here really.
 
Maybe it was that Portuguese lad we were after? Then some North West teams got wind of it and we lost out?
 
if we have lost out on a Player due to a leak, as a Sunderland Fan I’m annoyed as it’s weakened us. Those having a pop at Jones for moaning about it are missing the point In my view.
 
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