Clearly you are a transfer expert so I’m sure you’ll agree that seeing as the Franca deal is completed that will unlikely change? I mean he was in flamengos last match squad but why let a small detail like this make anyone reconsider the validity of the resident ITK. Unfortunately the apologists who are supporting this windup merchant are now just doing so for the sake of defending him.

As everyone has said there’s merit in posting gossip from social media and consolidating into a thread on HOL for those that don’t access Twitter and such like but that isn’t what’s happening here. ‘I’ve been told’ is all takes and is being presented as inside information aka ITK. Even when time and time again it’s shown to be nonsense. When you make sweeping statements like ‘it’s done’ to ensure some credibility and doesn’t come off all he has to say is it’s in good faith and the apologists lap it up. The posts are an ego trip for themselves and thrives off the few followers they have left.

Obviously the apologists will rush to the defence as usual but if you are going to present concrete statements on transfers of the club which invariably are proven to be incorrect you have to expect it to be challenged. Info on the club can be emotive and posting misleading information is going to cause a backlash. If the apologists don’t like it, ignore it.

There’s plenty of examples on here of posters posting rumours but unlike some they provide a link and source which is far more reliable than hoodwinking a certain section or HOL by just saying ‘I’ve been told’

Can’t understand why there is not far more alarm being expressed about the way the Arab leagues are literally buying the game. I say game, it’s an industry .
OK some are resisting but for how long? They always get there in the end ,they have bought into clubs from way back, and enough has not been enough, look at Newcastle, they got past all the barriers ,just kept asking.
This is a beginning and the end must be obvious a league that leaves the present major leagues trailing to the point where all the very best talent is theirs .
It could easily end with major changes in what football people watch on there TVs
and that amounts to a take over of the industry, used to be called football.

They are simply doing what the PL has been doing since its inception but somewhat more blatantly and quickly. As for real football fans, we'll still be going to watch our teams when the top players are playing in Saudi.

If the only TV football in the near future is the Saudi league, I for one won't be watching it and I suspect I won't be alone.

They are simply doing what the PL has been doing since its inception but somewhat more blatantly and quickly. As for real football fans, we'll still be going to watch our teams when the top players are playing in Saudi.

If the only TV football in the near future is the Saudi league, I for one won't be watching it and I suspect I won't be alone.

As an aside, a poster on BBS also stated Club were convinced Wilf was signing until last minute

They are simply doing what the PL has been doing since its inception but somewhat more blatantly and quickly. As for real football fans, we'll still be going to watch our teams when the top players are playing in Saudi.

If the only TV football in the near future is the Saudi league, I for one won't be watching it and I suspect I won't be alone.