January 2023 Transfer Rumours, Discussions and Done Deals Thread

[N'ZMAV]

Boring transfer window.

[villadelph]

Fabrizio Romano going live on YouTube in a minute, if anyone's interested..

yes I am on here now , bit more low key than sky sports news

Much better than I expected. He's an open book and his knowledge, off the cuff, across all of the european domestic leagues is impressive. "I tell the truth, I do not sell dreams." Great opening to the stream.

[Malandro]

Our late transfer will probably be Wesley.

[N'ZMAV]

Our late transfer will probably be Wesley.

Hopefully not

[aj2k77]

It's almost guaranteed that the previously impervious Watkins will pick up an injury and be out for 10 weeks some time in February.

[wince]

I get the pessimism and pushing for Europe. What if we are actually fine? Window still open and still time

[VILLA MOLE]

We have lots of lefties now

[Brazilian Villain]

We have lots of lefties now

'Twas ever thus on here.

[Brazilian Villain]

My memory of Bert is that he was always injured. I would like to see his playing stats.

https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/bertrand-traore/verletzungen/spieler/131996

He's no Cal Ripken Jr.

[pauliewalnuts]

My memory of Bert is that he was always injured. I would like to see his playing stats.

https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/bertrand-traore/verletzungen/spieler/131996

ACHTUNG! VERLETZUNGEN SPIELER!

I wish I could speak German, just so I could shout at people in it. No better language to be angry in.

Do the German police still get to slap people across the face with their leather gloves and scream PAPIERE! at them? That'd be cool too.

Actually, I saw that incredible German bank heist documentary recently and they don't, they just stand around by their cars smoking, whilst sporting long hair*





* in the 70s anyway.

[Drummond]

Last winter Arsenal got rid of a lot of players. They signed a young back up keeper and a player from the MLS. They then lined up their deals for last summer.

[pablo_picasso]

It will be a great day when sky lose the rights to this pantomime.

Its partly their monster that helped create it. First off with that grinning Scottish imbecile whose name has been erased from my memory due to the trauma of watching him pretend that he was the business. Their most recent little bit of propaganda cracked me up with that agent "documentary" fqrce. It was basically trying to gaslight us into thinking that agents are actually the good guys of football All so Sky can get an extra bit of "in the know" news to shout at a camera...

[Skerra]

When season tickets are due to go on sale, we’ll be promised a record busting summer transfer window. First few days we will sign our usual 2 circa £10/£15 million signings. We will then be linked to all the really big deals but, ultimately, won’t bring anyone else in and club will say, just wait until the next window. Oh and we will probably sell Watkins as well as we can’t fall foul of FFP. You heard it here first.

[pablo_picasso]

The Houssem Aouar story is from Football Insider, so file in the bin.

The thing with FI is it depends where they've pulled it from, they run 3 types of story, stuff they stolen from a real journalist, stuff they've stolen from random tweets and stuff they've either made up or turned into a story that in no way reflect whoever they're quoting. If it's the first type then maybe.

Im wondering if they have pulled their usual trick of saying that "player x is signing for Villa" & then having a counter story by some other muppett employed to write their lies saying that "player x is not signing for Villa". And then they claim an exclusive either way...

[pablo_picasso]

Come on Sky suppsoedly to be Deadline Day wheres the little nuggets from Dharmesh Sheth and Kaveh Solhekol?
People are mixed on them but at least they have a bit of insight unlike this current panel on Sky Sports News.
Perhaps they are on at 5pm?

They have no insight at all…if a club wants them to know something they will tell them that’s it.

They get texts live on air !
And they are as connected as anyone.
Guess they are coming up later so will look to hear what they say on Villa later.

Also Rob Dorset is very itk on Villa hes a sky sports reporter.
Most of the ex footballers are just there to talk about things rather than any In the Know.

They really aren’t….for ITK on Villa it is whoever in the media Tommy Jordan decides to pass info to…

They are purely reporting information…

Dharmesh is now on the show, explaining how he has a few reliable sources. And when people call him, he and Kavi double-check their sources as well as contact the club or player directly.

So Rob Doresett, Dharmesh Sheth, and Kaveh Solhekol aren't just reporting data? I could argue that it is not strictly ITK, but it is similar in case as trusted sources such as some others who have basically been told things for transfer moves. There are probably others, but these are all fairly trustworthy.

Jim White
John Percy
Tom Collomosse
Fabrizo Romano
Guillem Balagué
Gianluca Di Marzio
Davis Ornstein
Simon Stone
Matt Law

Grinning imbecile..