Everton and the ITKs in 2016

[Woolly Blue]

As we enter the 2nd week in August, something is becoming very clear to me, nobody has a clue on Everton transfers, this thread isnt a witch hunt and I wont name names, nor am I calling anybody out, but I have a request for the Mods and its this, I request a blanket ban on all supposed ITK information being allowed on the forum.

So far the following has happened this year :

Moshiri took over the club
Gibson signed a new contract
Stickleback was signed
Walsh joined us
Gueye signed
Williams signed

And not a single ITK on any platform called any of it, nobody on here, nobody on Twitter, nobody on any other Everton forum as far as I could see. Now ive been as guilty as anybody, I have actually received some information this window and passed it on, it was all utter rubbish, I hereby retire from the ITK game, due to the fact that im convinced that nobody knows anything.

Which brings me to the forum, we have 000s of people logging on daily for little titbits of information and the forum is full of jarg wannabe ITKs, its not productive for us as a forum and I personally think warnings should be issued for anybody claiming to have Intel they wish to pass on.

I would appreciate if people didnt turn this into a witch hunt, as I say, ive been as guilty as anybody else, but I am stating, now, for the record, I do not have access to any information regarding Everton Football Club and im sorry, it was never my intention to trick or lie to my fellow posters.

Thoughts?

I'm as certain as I can be that the club, under Moshiri, have got information tied down tighter than it ever was under the old regime. It's being run professionally, and that means if people don't need to know, then they won't be told. It also means that if people directly connected with the club leak information, and get found out, then it won't just be a slap on the wrist they get, they'll be out of the door.

Snippets will still leak, but I'm reasonably sure that the vast majority of the information provided by the proper ITK's is being leaked deliberately. That doesn't mean the ITK's are doing things at the club's behest, but there's a fair chance that some of their sources are. I'm also reasonably sure that the leaked information on things like Mata, Witsel and all the rest of the rumoured signings is correct and isn't being put out there to make it look like the club's doing more than what it really is.

End of the day, the whole ITK thing doesn't really matter, it sells papers, increases web traffic and the like, and it's vaguely nice to have a feeling for what might be going on in the background, but we'll sign who we sign, and as MootsGoat's said, the things which have happened so far this Summer havn't really been called by anyone before the press got wind of things, so it's not really worth folk ( on either "side" of the issue ) getting their knickers in a twist over.

 

[ijjysmith]

End of the day, the whole ITK thing doesn't really matter, it sells papers, increases web traffic and the like, and it's vaguely nice to have a feeling for what might be going on in the background, but we'll sign who we sign, and as MootsGoat's said, the things which have happened so far this Summer havn't really been called by anyone before the press got wind of things, so it's not really worth folk ( on either "side" of the issue ) getting their knickers in a twist over.

Oh wow.

 

[roydo]

I'm as certain as I can be that the club, under Moshiri, have got information tied down tighter than it ever was under the old regime. It's being run professionally, and that means if people don't need to know, then they won't be told. It also means that if people directly connected with the club leak information, and get found out, then it won't just be a slap on the wrist they get, they'll be out of the door.

Snippets will still leak, but I'm reasonably sure that the vast majority of the information provided by the proper ITK's is being leaked deliberately. That doesn't mean the ITK's are doing things at the club's behest, but there's a fair chance that some of their sources are. I'm also reasonably sure that the leaked information on things like Mata, Witsel and all the rest of the rumoured signings is correct and isn't being put out there to make it look like the club's doing more than what it really is.

End of the day, the whole ITK thing doesn't really matter, it sells papers, increases web traffic and the like, and it's vaguely nice to have a feeling for what might be going on in the background, but we'll sign who we sign, and as MootsGoat's said, the things which have happened so far this Summer havn't really been called by anyone before the press got wind of things, so it's not really worth folk ( on either "side" of the issue ) getting their knickers in a twist over.

I can deffo say, we have not talked to Yarmolenko for ages.

 

[ianefc]

my fella was a bit too confident about him being in a light green shirt come the new season there.

*giggles in a childish manor*

 

[Woolly Blue]

Oh wow.

'Twas not a criticism, it's just a fact.

 

[Bungle]

All a load of bollocks really isn't it, some appear more convincing than others but none of them really know anything more than the other, it's all about how credible they can make themselves appear.

The ones that are eloquent enough to put some well thought out words together will fool the masses of deluded bells that are desperate for any information, it's like a crazy cult.

I hope for the sake of humanity 70% of people posting in the transfer thread never reproduce.

 

[Hellerad]

I'm more IDK than ITK

 

[peteblue]

All a load of bollocks really isn't it, some appear more convincing than others but none of them really know anything more than the other, it's all about how credible they can make themselves appear.

The ones that are eloquent enough to put some well thought out words together will fool the masses of deluded bells that are desperate for any information, it's like a crazy cult.

I hope for the sake of humanity 70% of people posting in the transfer thread never reproduce.

And the other 30% are sterile.......

 

[Frank Gallagher]

All a load of bollocks really isn't it, some appear more convincing than others but none of them really know anything more than the other, it's all about how credible they can make themselves appear.

The ones that are eloquent enough to put some well thought out words together will fool the masses of deluded bells that are desperate for any information, it's like a crazy cult.

I hope for the sake of humanity 70% of people posting in the transfer thread never reproduce.

have you got kids bugel??

*shudders at the thought

 

[Bungle]

have you got kids bugel??

*shudders at the thought

I am a superb father to 3 beautiful children mate. How that happened I have no idea because like most posting in the transfer thread I've never touched a real woman.

 

[ijjysmith]

And the other 30% are sterile.......

Hope so

 

[Bungle]

And the other 30% are sterile.......

Imagine the state of your sperm pete, bouncing around off the vaginal walls and struggling to get up.

 

[Groucho]

I'm more IDK than ITK

Here's your mate.

 

[Hellerad]

I am a superb father to 3 beautiful children mate. How that happened I have no idea because like most posting in the transfer thread I've never touched a real woman.

Immaculate Bungleception

 

[peteblue]

Imagine the state of your sperm pete, bouncing around off the vaginal walls and struggling to get up.

Had it cut off years ago mate......