Jermain Defoe (no longer a rumour)


Thats the point though its KLD and the muppets that need the tin hat.At the moment we have signed a kid from Ireland who sounds as if he is one for the future.I hope im wrong but action is needed in the next 10 days to have a chance of going up.
You remember the summer yeah? When everone panicked for weeks, but the club remained calm and made good progress with the squad?

People need patience. Anyone can sign a random player quickly, but if we have a carefully selected list of targets, possibly who are in demand or difficult for other reasons, it might take a little longer than we'd like.

The point is, judge the window at the end of it.
 
Always the way mate. Doesn't even have to be Magnus or other 'ITKs'. Someone spouts an outrageous opinion or take on something on here. A few echo the same. Even worse, it starts going back and forth between here and over the road. A while later what was an opinion is basically taken as fact.

A few months later the same things are dragged up over and over, becoming more and more definite as time passes.

Rinse and repeat.

Aye. Yesterday saw an example of that. Someone posted Reidy had hoyed Waddle out to protect his job. Hours later someone used this in reference to Johnson and Defoe, claiming it could be true as it was something that had "happened before".
 
Agree with this.

Not a LJ knocker by any means but if Defoe is available, wants to come and we don't get him....and then we fall short in promotion this year then the pressure will be enormous and rightly or wrongly, he will be the scapegoat.
If that was the case LJ would deserve to be the scapegoat.
 
Aye. Yesterday saw an example of that. Someone posted Reidy had hoyed Waddle out to protect his job. Hours later someone used this in reference to Johnson and Defoe, claiming it could be true as it was something that had "happened before".
Exactly, it's the kind of stuff that always used to happen in pubs and among mates etc..... but places like this and Twitter etc. just amplify it 1000x and to a much broader audience.
 
You remember the summer yeah? When everone panicked for weeks, but the club remained calm and made good progress with the squad?

People need patience. Anyone can sign a random player quickly, but if we have a carefully selected list of targets, possibly who are in demand or difficult for other reasons, it might take a little longer than we'd like.

The point is, judge the window at the end of it.
Are you an accountant by any chance?
 
Did any of the so called itk's mention batthy boy signing before he did actually sign?They never actually come out with concrete statements do they? its like the messages from beyond the grave fekking cryptic!I must admit i thought prehab and magnus were cool but now i think they belong firmly on the doubting step!If we dont get a striker in(not including defoe) we are toast.......... so to all the ITK get yer ears to the ground coz i think we will be sourcing a striker before the window closes so who is going to be first to name him ?
Yeah nobody mentioned the Batth deal
 
:lol: :lol: Exactly that. People were thanking him for keeping them informed during the takeover saga ignoring the fact that none of it had come to fruition.

It doesn't really bother me either way to be honest and I'm sure he's a genuine lad but his source is definitely a duff one.
He wasn't the only one who retconned his info that a takeover was happening to 'confirm' he was 100% right all along about the details. The vast majority of takeover ITKs got the specifics completely wrong. Nobody knew owt about KLD. It was all about the Dell lot or Rybolovlev.
 
You remember the summer yeah? When everone panicked for weeks, but the club remained calm and made good progress with the squad?

People need patience. Anyone can sign a random player quickly, but if we have a carefully selected list of targets, possibly who are in demand or difficult for other reasons, it might take a little longer than we'd like.

The point is, judge the window at the end of it.
Fair enough but JD is not a random player.

We are crying out for a striker and you should never look a gift horse in the mouth.
 
Fair enough but JD is not a random player.

We are crying out for a striker and you should never look a gift horse in the mouth.
We might have other targets lined up. We've made Defoe an offer. If he takes it he takes it, if not we move on to other targets.

I'd love Defoe here as much as anyone but we shouldn't bend over backwards, we should have other options lined up.
 
This thread is possibly the most tedious one I’ve seen in years

24 hour message boards and social media just means it’s a permanent stress area now. I remember the days when the board first arrived and everyone was offering to buy each other drinks. These days… :lol:
 
This thread is possibly the most tedious one I’ve seen in years

24 hour message boards and social media just means it’s a permanent stress area now. I remember the days when the board first arrived and everyone was offering to buy each other drinks. These days… :lol:
after the Patrick Roberts
 
You appear rather sanguine and unaware of what fans do on a forum site Of course hindsight is always the best judge of things and it would make sense to wait until the window to judge the window .....using your logic fans should wait till the end of the season before judging it!.very commendable but we wont have a sport without the fans and fans do what fans do!
This thread is possibly the most tedious one I’ve seen in years

24 hour message boards and social media just means it’s a permanent stress area now. I remember the days when the board first arrived and everyone was offering to buy each other drinks. These days… :lol:
So you decided to add your musings to the most tedious thread in years! :D.I would have thought not commenting would have been the bolder choice for the more recondite man about town you obviously are !
 
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You appear rather sanguine and unaware of what fans do on a forum site Of course hindsight is always the best judge of things and it would make sense to wait until the window to judge the window .....using your logic fans should wait till the end of the season before judging it!.very commendable but we wont have a sport without the fans and fans do what fans do!
Haha, not at all mate. I just don't swing to polar opposites like a lot on here, that doesn't make me an accountant :lol:

I'm hitting F5 on here and elsewhere as much as anyone hoping for news.

All I'm saying is that very little leaks from the club now during transfer windows and the summer showed that while we heard very little, there was a lot going on.

Most were happy with the final result - or at least saw the approach had worked and improved the squad.

There's no reason to assume this window will be any different. Generally the new recruitment team have done well. Players like Stewart, Winchester, Dajaku, Cirkin etc. have all proved shrewd moves.

I'm happy to trust them and wait and see.
 

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