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Gordon said:
Would you have Gavin Whyte back again? His 2nd spell with us was a little bit underwhelming.
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I don't know to be honest, just thought I would put this on here because it was talked about elsewhere. Also the previous links with Scully
 
If we have signed Owen Dale when don't the club just come out and say all this holding back is B*****s not unless it is not completed yet 🙄
 
Oufccraig45 said:
If we have signed Owen Dale when don't the club just come out and say all this holding back is B*****s not unless it is not completed yet 🙄
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Because when you're signing a player from another club - you're waiting on them to be happy for it to be published as well which always strings it out.

From my days working within the industry - here is a very rough guide to the number of stages in signing a player from another club. And no doubt it will have changed in the 5 years since I was last involved with a deadline day directly via a club.

Approach club
Negotiate
Agree fee
Meeting 1 with player
Negotiate with agent
Possibly another 3 or 4 meetings with player/agent
Contract terms agreed
Medical
Contract terms finalised
Contract signed
Selling club submit paperwork
Buying club submit paperwork
FA and EFL confirm they're happy
Paperwork finalised
New club player registration finalised
Announcement media worked on
Announcement media finalised
Club interviews and photoshoot take place
Club interviews and photoshoot edited and finalised
Confirm with other club when you want to do announcement
Announcement made simultaneously


It's utterly irrelevant when the announcement is made, it can have been finalised hours before or minutes before.

Today is also pre-match media day, so plenty going on for our media and comms team already without additional announcements to schedule.
 
Marked Ox said:
If it is done, does it actually matter when it is announced?

Maybe they have a plan to announce a series of signings (assuming there are others) in a co-ordinated way.
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I don't really get the holding back announcing a signing announcement, would happily go back to the days of just shoving them in front of a camera in a s**t t shirt.
 
dickwalton1964 said:
That’s an interesting take!

I’m late 50’s and in some ways a bit of a traditionalist, especially things like etiquette. Two of my children have black partners and I get on fantastically well with both, so no 1950’s style race debate to be had! One of my other children’s best friend is transgender - stays regularly and someone who’s company I enjoy immensely. A couple of my mates are gay - that’s that subject put to bed too. Not sounding too 1950’s so far is it? And about as far removed from this baldy guy as possible I’d say.

Vote Tory. I’m a royalist, a churchgoer and believe in capitalism and enterprise. If I read newspapers (I don’t) it’d be the Daily Mail or Telegraph. I’d say I was extremely adaptable to 21st century situations, while at the same time maintaining a lot of traditional values. But hey! You don’t know me so to you I’m that 1950’s dad! We need to get back to talking football!
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Well said. The bit in bold reminded me of an Alan Partridge interview in Q magazine I read while working in a newsagent in the 90s"

I had no idea who he was or that he was a parody so when I read "that's nonsense, I have two black friends and I own a Whitney Houston album" I nearly spat my lunch out all over the magazine!
 
bert said:
Well said. The bit in bold reminded me of an Alan Partridge interview in Q magazine I read while working in a newsagent in the 90s"

I had no idea who he was or that he was a parody so when I read "that's nonsense, I have two black friends and I own a Whitney Houston album" I nearly spat my lunch out all over the magazine!
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You clearly DID spit your lunch over that magazine...and now after nearly 30 years I have the answer as to why those pages were bizarrely stuck together in my copy - ewww!
 
Sheik djibouti said:
You clearly DID spit your lunch over that magazine...and now after nearly 30 years I have the answer as to why those pages were bizarrely stuck together in my copy - ewww!
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Glad we're talking about Q and not Razzle
 
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