He is already a legend with 19 Pages 😳😃
Quote from: VILLA MOLE on January 11, 2025, 02:32:43 PMHe is already a legend with 19 Pages 😳😃12 of those pages are people saying he shouldn't have his own thread.
Quote from: cdbearsfan on January 11, 2025, 01:21:09 PMPlayers shouldn't get their own thread until they're officially signed, IMO. Everything until then is speculation and we already have a thread for that.I agree with this. It was always the way but we've let it slip of late.
Players shouldn't get their own thread until they're officially signed, IMO. Everything until then is speculation and we already have a thread for that.
On this one, there's a big distinction between "I saw this guy Malen play the other day, he's pretty good, we should sign him" posts and "a large number of reputable sources say Villa are trying to sign Malen" ones.
An Argentinian playing at Seville? Marcos Acuña I reckon. It appears he’s now at River Plate, so it’s hasn’t turned out too bad for him.
Quote from: Dante Lavelli on January 10, 2025, 10:31:52 PMAn Argentinian playing at Seville? Marcos Acuña I reckon. It appears he’s now at River Plate, so it’s hasn’t turned out too bad for him.They call him "The Egg" in Argentina cos he's chubby and wobbles. One to steer clear of if we're doing the "Snog, Marry, Avoid" game in transfers.
There is no such thing as jinxes when someone starts a new thread based on reputable journalists reporting something is happening. People who actually have a stake in getting these stories correct. So what Joe Fucking Bryan snubbed us and joined Fulham. It had nothing to do with a thread starting early. The vast majority of times whenever a thread is started, by whoever it is started by it is based on a local football journalist reporting it, or Romano, Percy etc. there is a good chance it’s going to happen at some stage in the following few weeks. For this one Jacob Tanswell for example has said he fully expects it happen, the player teams aren’t an issue. Just the two clubs finding numbers that work with all of the financial complexities the clubs need to manage and abide by today.
Quote from: Toronto Villa on January 12, 2025, 02:07:47 PMThere is no such thing as jinxes when someone starts a new thread based on reputable journalists reporting something is happening. People who actually have a stake in getting these stories correct. So what Joe Fucking Bryan snubbed us and joined Fulham. It had nothing to do with a thread starting early. The vast majority of times whenever a thread is started, by whoever it is started by it is based on a local football journalist reporting it, or Romano, Percy etc. there is a good chance it’s going to happen at some stage in the following few weeks. For this one Jacob Tanswell for example has said he fully expects it happen, the player teams aren’t an issue. Just the two clubs finding numbers that work with all of the financial complexities the clubs need to manage and abide by today. Bet you think it’s ok to walk over 3 drains on the way to the game and think it’s ok as well
Quote from: john e on January 12, 2025, 02:17:11 PMQuote from: Toronto Villa on January 12, 2025, 02:07:47 PMThere is no such thing as jinxes when someone starts a new thread based on reputable journalists reporting something is happening. People who actually have a stake in getting these stories correct. So what Joe Fucking Bryan snubbed us and joined Fulham. It had nothing to do with a thread starting early. The vast majority of times whenever a thread is started, by whoever it is started by it is based on a local football journalist reporting it, or Romano, Percy etc. there is a good chance it’s going to happen at some stage in the following few weeks. For this one Jacob Tanswell for example has said he fully expects it happen, the player teams aren’t an issue. Just the two clubs finding numbers that work with all of the financial complexities the clubs need to manage and abide by today. Bet you think it’s ok to walk over 3 drains on the way to the game and think it’s ok as well I do. And walk under ladders and cross paths with black cats. And when I’m in a real mood I open all my umbrellas indoors.
Quote from: LeeB on January 11, 2025, 02:10:40 PMQuote from: cdbearsfan on January 11, 2025, 01:21:09 PMPlayers shouldn't get their own thread until they're officially signed, IMO. Everything until then is speculation and we already have a thread for that.I agree with this. It was always the way but we've let it slip of late.No, it absolutely wasn't. If you really want the history, we never used to have transfer threads. There was then a summer (possibly O'Neill's first) when there was an epidemic of new threads of "we should sign this player" and "who could we sign as our next striker?" and it was decided that all that stuff should just be put into one thread.It was never meant as a catch-all, "anything to do with all transfers, right up to the point we sign somebody" thread, because that would be mental. We signed Bailey nearly 300 posts into his thread. Why mix those 300 posts about a player we are obviously trying to sign with all the nonsense?On this one, there's a big distinction between "I saw this guy Malen play the other day, he's pretty good, we should sign him" posts and "a large number of reputable sources say Villa are trying to sign Malen" ones.And if we don't sign him, who gives a toss? It's not the end of the world if a Malen thread drops down the pages of the forum like all the others.