That story is a perfect example of the Mirror's reporting. They simply couldn't have got it more wrong. Anyone who believes what's in the Mirror is a dunce.
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That story is a perfect example of the Mirror's reporting. They simply couldn't have got it more wrong. Anyone who believes what's in the Mirror is a dunce.
bourneblue
Player Valuation: £10m
correct,especially any articles penned by those closet kopites Read and Bascombe.
DrEFC
Player Valuation: £40m
Closet?correct,especially any articles penned by those closet kopites Read and Bascombe.
bourneblue
Player Valuation: £10m
Not to those that Know,many posters alas do not.
Leeboy
Player Valuation: £1m
Would need to be a new Prem record for me to be happy to sell the lad
bizzaro
LOVE GOT JUST THE WAY IT IS #ALWNV
And where is Leighton Baines now?
Guest89
Player Valuation: £1m
As a general rule, if a tabloid uses the tag 'exclusive', it's usually a load of crap.
The only paper rumours that really hold weight are the ones that all papers run with simultaneously, as it's usually a leak from one of the two clubs involved to various sources at once.
Woolly Blue
Player Valuation: £80m
If you can show any evidence for this, then now would be a good time to do so.
Baines' left foot
Player Valuation: £90m
He's gone chaps.
Utter Judas.
Utter Judas.
BirkenheadBlue
Player Valuation: £70m
The thing about that story specifically, is just that i don't get it at ALL.
I mean, I get that newspapers make up transfer stories all the time when it's a slow news day... they have X number of column inches to fill no matter what. I understand that.
But what I don't get about that article in particular is that SURELY if you were going to make up a story, you'd put at least SOME effort into making it at least vaguely believable? I mean, if the article had even said £12m, then at least it'd be NEARLY realistic! But £5m?! And then to frame the figure by saying we'd be happy to get most of our money back that we paid to Wigan, when even at that stage Baines had become one of the best left backs in the league?
One of the weirdest stories I've ever read!
It's a nonsense story on a quiet period for transfers due to the World Cup - so the papers have to use the following equation to sell their rags: player not at World Cup+quite a high value+big club buying=paper sales.
Common sense tells you it'd have to be a bid north of £50m for us to sell at this point.
Common sense tells you it'd have to be a bid north of £50m for us to sell at this point.
emb
Player Valuation: £8m
Prior to Southampton's utter meltdown (possibly 'cos Pochettino jumped first) I genuinely didn't see much that would make a player want to jump between any of the Top 7 sides. Some are challenging for trophies more frequently than others unodubtedly, but none of them are playing crap football, and those trophy challenges bring with them uncertainty about regular first team starts.
Saints particularly looked like they had the beginnings of something that would have them challenging for the same places as us, Spurs, and a Suarez-free Liverpool. The only sides you'd go to for guaranteed Champions League football beyond the end of this year would be City and Chelsea, and neither of those come with guaranteed starts.
There's no team in England right now that can honestly guarantee Ross anything besides absurd amounts of money and one season in the Champions League.
4737carlin
Player Valuation: £90m
We still wouldnt sell him even if offered £50 ATM. The banks have stopped knocking on the door every summer, so we dont have to sell anyone if we dont want to.
Guest89
Player Valuation: £1m
I think what happened with the Baines to Man U stories is a person inside Man U was leaking this to his source than Man U were interested and what they hoped to get him for. The reason it kept coming up was the same person in the Man U press office was leaking it, as part of a strategy in the hope Baines would force through a move himself, as we all know from what Baines has since said this didn't happen.
It's my understanding, the way the general shot in the dark rumours work, is there are freelance journalists who have sources within certain clubs and they get proper leaks of who people are interested in. Example, the rumours we're looking at the likes of Rodwell, Cleverly, Welbeck etc, I have no doubt that our scouts have been looking at them as part of a long list of options, whichever freelance reporters have connections with our club will get these names, they're known within the tabloid industry to have genuine connections to the club, so the tabloid will buy the story from them and it fills pages. 90% of the time, these rumours don't materialise because managers look at the entire list, think of costs and then choose to pursue the ones they want. Doesn't mean the others weren't under consideration, but the options we did go after are the ones we wanted most.
I think the fee and the player exchange on the other hand are guess work or throw away comments by the source at best. But I have no doubt Barkley is probably on City's radar, along with a whole host of other options. But by the fact no other tabloid has run with it as a backpage story and the amount quoted is nowhere near what most sane people would expect him to move for, I don't think this story will be much of a goer this window.
I think that's what sets these tabloid rumours apart from the Twitter ITKs however, who literally are just logical guess work based on the stature of a club, the position they're in need and the players available. I do think most tabloid rumours always come from someone with some sort of connection within a club involved, it's just most of the time, they're massively exaggerated from being on a consideration/scouting list to being imminent bids. If a bid really was imminent then it'd be all over all the papers as the top journos would have all had briefings from the club looking to unsettle the player.
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