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Gossip Folks – Week One
As promised, I have been monitoring transfer news for players coming into and leaving Birmingham City, and I have my first update for you today.
In order to make this a fair experiment, I have come up with some rules. Firstly, as mentioned before the rumour must come from a credible source – ie a newspaper (national or local) or a credible website (ie not tribalfootball or footballrumours.co.uk). Secondly, only the first report of the rumour counts – any rehashes by other journos only count if there is a significant addition to the story. Thirdly, the story must explicitly state that the rumour – ie “Nathan Redmond to Man City for £6mil” counts, “…and Liam Ridgewell is said to be interesting Newcastle United” doesn’t.
The current (and fairly sparse) spreadsheet is here. As you can see, the only stories that I have put in from the last week have both been from the Mirror, and concern Nathan Redmond and Jack Butland. I’ve not included the £12million rating of Nathan Redmond as it’s not a transfer rumour as such, it’s just a “response” – and I use quotes as there isn’t any from the club – to the original story.
One rumour that doesn’t count but is interesting comes from a Newcastle local newspaper, who mention that Curtis Davies was offered to Newcastle United last week – something I’ve not seen mentioned in our local newspapers at all. I have no idea as to how truthful that rumour is.
I aim to have the next update up on or around the 2nd of January.
Tags: Curtis Davies, Jack Butland, Nathan Redmond, Rumours
4 Responses to “Gossip Folks – Week One”
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You won’t need one for inbound players lol
davies offered to newcastle????if that the type of thing going on down there then,then i cant see hughton staying long (and i cant blame him)as hes swimming against the tide with this crowd in charge all the time…happy christmas to all blues fan keep the faith….yeung and pannu OUT.
Don’t be under any illusions people.
ANYBODY who can command a decent fee will be off especially those still on their perm wages.
Paradoxically we’ll probably keep Butland and Redmond cos of asking for stupid dough which is great for us
only makes sense if ch has a replacement lined up, maybe matt killgannon