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[Albion] Ferdi Kadioglu **Singed 27/08/24**









SeagullinExile

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There's a simple, nuanced answer to this journo willy waving but as usual one poster on here is turning into a binary conversation in which only he's right.

Naylor and Owen won't want to reveal our targets for the very real reason that they could get hijacked. Hence the confirmation only when there's no chance of the deal collpasing. The quid pro quo is they get info on other things to write about in the Argus during the season.

Romano gets info directly from agents agitating for a move or a new contract. He has a lot of them and gets a lot of info. He also has a lot of highly unreliable imitators who post complete nonsense on X for likes and blue tick money.

Neither are foolproof. Romano initially ALWAYS hedges but a 'here we go' is 99.9% reliable. I trust the here we go. I don't trust anything he could later change or delete.

Sky Germany / Plettigoal have had a very good window though. Seem to have very solid info. Reliable AF so far.

The trade off comes during the season when Romano retreats off to shadows and Naylor / Owen get to write their columns about other Albion stuff, do interviews, poke around the Academy etc, none of which you get with 'transfer gurus'.
 


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Flounce said:
Naylor and Owen are working with their hands tied, one wrong move and the info dries up. The others don’t have direct contact with the Albion I imagine except maybe Ormstein so can reveal rumours heard with no fear of pissing of the Albion hierarchy. Just imo
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The world has changed.

There used to be the day, only 20 years ago, before social media where the local Argus hack had his contacts in the club and was probably the very best source, where quality Albion related news was only local ITK leaks on the far less poplular internet or in the Argus.

Now with whatsapp, X, Facebook or whatever, news is instant, Agents or clubs can leak something to social media, to manipulate transfers, or through a massively subscribed eyes on, intermediary like Romano and its out to the world in 30 seconds.

The role of the local hack has been overtaken by social media.
 


phoenix

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Flounce said:
Naylor and Owen are working with their hands tied, one wrong move and the info dries up. The others don’t have direct contact with the Albion I imagine except maybe Ormstein so can reveal rumours heard with no fear of pissing of the Albion hierarchy. Just imo
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i like both Naylor and Owen but info dries up? were virtually saying they are reporting what the club says well that's more or less common knowledge by then.
 






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Years ago, I was waiting in line to go into Saint Sophia mosque in Istanbul, when this friendly old boy began talking to me. He said he was an Imam in London. After a lot more small talk, he asked me if I liked carpets. Yes, he wanted to sell me a carpet. True story*.

It is rare that I make my mind up about a whole nation, based on a sample size of one, but on this basis, my considered opinion is that anything that you hear about Ferdi that comes from Turkey is likely to be just that little bit suspect.

*Other true stories are available on request.
 


Peppermint Tea

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Ali_rrr said:
The transfer stories are all broken by David Ornstein. Hence why Naylor never reports on speculation anymore, he passes his sources onto Ornstein.
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Fair point. But my comments transcend transfers. He breaks no news at all and his longer pieces just aren’t insightful…I can’t recall the last time he told us anything we didn’t already know.
 




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Andy Naylor's career as an Albion correspondent is now older than Fabian Hurzeler !! All credit to him for continuing to report and write about the Albion now for a company owned by the New York Times. Who'd have thought it.
And NSC posters pointing out where he's been going wrong or man splaining how is job actually works is probably up there too - almost Milner like in its longevity. .

Its a fine old NSC tradition !
 


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Flounce said:
Naylor and Owen are working with their hands tied, one wrong move and the info dries up. The others don’t have direct contact with the Albion I imagine except maybe Ormstein so can reveal rumours heard with no fear of pissing of the Albion hierarchy. Just imo
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Except they don’t give us any juicy info :shrug:
 


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SeagullinExile said:
So Twitter is the voice of reason is it?

Right oh.
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Its a hellhole but if that's where the newest news on any subject will be, unfortunately. The difficulty is trying to figure out what is true, true-ish or false.
 






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chaileyjem said:
Andy Naylor's career as an Albion correspondent is now older than Fabian Hurzeler !! All credit to him for continuing to report and write about the Albion now for a company owned by the New York Times. Who'd have thought it.
And NSC posters pointing out where he's been going wrong or man splaining how is job actually works is probably up there too - almost Milner like in its longevity. .

Its a fine old NSC tradition !
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It certainly gives people something petty to argue about while we wait for anything interesting to happen.
 


ConfusedGloryHunter

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Stato said:
Am I not understanding? That graphic shows four home games and three away.
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It is missing the Ipswich game. I have no idea why I am following this so closely.

Edit: the xitter tiling of the images you can see has cropped images 2 and 3 so the Ipswich game is hidden. So it makes Naylor look a fool if you don't click through his whole tweet.
 


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chaileyjem said:
Andy Naylor's career as an Albion correspondent is now older than Fabian Hurzeler !! All credit to him for continuing to report and write about the Albion now for a company owned by the New York Times. Who'd have thought it.
And NSC posters pointing out where he's been going wrong or man splaining how is job actually works is probably up there too - almost Milner like in its longevity. .

Its a fine old NSC tradition !
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Very true and his longevity should be acknowledged. It was the Argus or the Seagull line for any and all transfer news/bad news. Naylor isn't breaking it anymore, times have changed, changed and radically changed.
 








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