hypochondriac

I'm not suggesting this is the reason at all, but there have been other players out with mystery viruses or other illnesses and sometimes they are serving bans for a variety of reasons. Clyne springs to mind...

A timely bump of this thread. Illustrates perfectly what many of us were saying about pr tactics and being linked to tons of players that we were never realistically going to sign. Absolutely spunked the vvd cash up the wall the following summer.

Nandy is absolutely the best out of the ones standing. She has zero chance though.

Indeed and if you have hardly any money to spend what's the smarter move? Sit on your hands and make it obvious that you can't afford anything? Or get busy linking yourself to deals that don't quite come off, shifting the story from one where sfc have a relatively small amount of cash that they aren't spending to a narrative where ambitious saints have just been unlucky in their January dealings and just missed out on big money signings on a technicality. Think about which story is going to benefit the club the most. It's not rocket science but it's amazing how many people it hoodwinks. Basic PR.

That's another example of club pr. Quincy promes supposedly signing him in the summer- never happened. A load of cbs and we got that guy in a panic after the transfer window shut, carillo last minute after a host of links to other people, numerous articles from that pet journo we feed pr stories to so we have plausible deniability, maybe we should go through some of those old articles and catalogue the mistruths and falsehoods. According to some on here it's all just made up by the journos involved.

And the answer is because it placate a section of the fanbase who are happier with the "attempt" than seemingly doing very little.

And that's fine but many people do believe it and are calmer than they would be had we been linked with very little because that would give more of an insight into the reality which is that we actually have very little money to spend and aren't going to spend anything like the amount that we pretend we will.

Are you saying there aren't a ton of people on here but also in real life who don't take the attitude of oh well at least we gave it our best shot? I'm not saying that every name isn't someone we haven't tried to sign, but clearly we fairly regularly leak names out of players we would maybe like to sign but have little realistic chance of getting because it gives the impression that we are lore ambitious thsn we actually are.

You clearly have a rudimentary understanding of how pr works. It doesn't really matter if you think it's a negative thing, loads of clubs do it and I know for an absolute fact that we also do it. What do you think that piece in the paper immediately after the Leicester game was about? Coincidental timing? Do you consider it a coincidence that the same handful of journalists get inside scoops from saints? We have a marketing and or department for a reason.

It is blindingly obvious why they do it, to give fans something to talk about and deflect from the lack of real transfer activity whilst the window is open if they are talking about quincy promes signing for example they won't be talking about the frustration at the real lack of signings. How is this a difficult concept for you to grasp?

That's nonsense and not how pr works at all. You feed a bunch of names to a friendly journalist or paper like the telegraph, you get fans excited and distracted from asking questions about transfer policy and then when it doesn't come off and the window has passed you have plausible deniability and a bunch of fans who may have been demanding signings but instead were getting excited and discussing the potential in the leaked "signings" and now it's too late to do anything so might as well wait until the next window. How is this difficult to understand? Some of you have obviously never done a pr or marketing course in your lives.

I know people working at the marketing department. It doesn't matter why they do it but I know for an absolute fact that they do. After the 9-0 they, had a whole contingency plan for damage control. Wouldn't surprise me if they have a number of tactics ready to go for a number of bad news scenarios.

Yes but I meant not essential in January. Given we are clearly reluctant to do much business in January, my guess is RB will be the priority.

Yep. Best not to listen to any press stories. I think we will get a rb in that can cover cb maybe and tbf most other stuff can wait until the summer. Cm would be nice but not essential.

You're just jealous

Interesting. Linked with a forward from a French club whose scored a lot of goals and rumours of red bull sniffing around today. Looks like my source may have got some stuff right. Can I claim an itk badge yet?

Incest. Gross.

Sounds like standard bbc fare. Is the count an evil straight white male?

Assuming there's a vampire hunter in it are they in a wheelchair?

Yes but that's a bit different from using their Liverpool performance to suggest they aren't better than us.

Yes we have improved since losing to Leicester but it's absurd to suggest they aren't generally a lot better than us. I think we will most likely lose to them. You never know if we catch them on an off day and play well but I don't think we can use their loss to Liverpool to suggest they still aren't one of the best teams in the division.

Yes the best team in the league by miles. If we had played them we would have been spanked too.

That's mad Leicester have been cracking all season.

I got that too. Very amusing.

Please show where I moaned about that. When you can't find it you can apologise.