[Albion] Lewis Dunk to Chelsea? EDIT: New 5 Year Deal Signed

[Sheebo]

Seems fair enough to me. The Argus are starting to piss me off at the moment. That and the article about Ben White and Liverpool. They seem to be trying to stir things up.

Guaranteed Dunk was only not in the promo stuff for the new kit because like you say they want to keep things fresh, and also in a year when we've had all the BLM protests the club will want to show diversity in who represents them. Nothing to do with him potentially leaving the club. The photo shoot for the kits would have been done months back, long before any of this transfer gossip.

Yet it seems literally the biggest (scum) paper in the country have printed a story based a bit on this and it was just mentioned by some fans in NSC - amazing!

 

[SimpKingpin]

Seems fair enough to me. The Argus are starting to piss me off at the moment. That and the article about Ben White and Liverpool. They seem to be trying to stir things up.

Maybe they are experimenting with clickbait. It sucks but works.

 

[SeagullinExile]

Yeah I thought something similar about repping the kids and diversity and the psychological aspect of giving Bissouma that boost etc.

Only thing I've been wondering is if the Lamptey and potential Dunk move is related in any way, since they may have been talking in January.

No idea. Just a thought.

Its been said many times before, Lamptey turned down a new contract with Chelsea. Lampard wanted to keep him. Nothing would suggest it has anything to do with Dunk going in the opposite direction.

 

[SimpKingpin]

Be interesting to see if Dunk is in training this week (is it tomorrow? that would be exactly three weeks since the end of the season).

Also hope we start getting some nice pics of White in training

 

[Sheebo]

Maybe they are experimenting with clickbait. It sucks but works.

Nah it’s a junior or very non football girl covering it when others are away. They should be keeping the same style / copying the usual style whilst Owen is away - what they’re producing is nothing short of embarrassing.

 

[Blue Valkyrie]

Seems fair enough to me. The Argus are starting to piss me off at the moment. That and the article about Ben White and Liverpool. They seem to be trying to stir things up.

They are not trying to stir things up.


It is more that the person who was parachuted in to cover Brian Owen's holiday has no interest in football and just uses a google search of "Brighton transfer" ( or similar ) to source stories.

 

[brighton_tom]

They are not trying to stir things up.


It is more that the person who was parachuted in to cover Brian Owen's holiday has no interest in football and just uses a google search of "Brighton transfer" ( or similar ) to source stories.

Its strange that they've let that happen. With the Argus it always previously seemed to be a bit of a rule that if they were to comment on transfer gossip it was because Naylor/Owen had some first hand insight on it. The integrity of the paper as a source of news has been damaged with her nonsense gossip articles. Hopefully normal service resumes soon.

 

[Not Andy Naylor]

Brilliant.

Someone starts a dodgy rumour on Twitter, it comes on here, The Sun report it with a bit of made up fluff, the Argus say "according to reports" Chelsea have bid what The Sun said, NSC takes this as confirmation and the rumours gather strength. Presumably, if The Sun have nothing better to fill a column tomorrow, they will report "local paper reports Chelsea interest in Dunk hotting up". All basically based on the same original load of bollocks.

Am I close?

The problem here is that there is a very persuasive logic behind it. Dunk is known to have been a Chelsea fan as a boy, Chelsea need new central defenders, Dunk is no longer front and centre of the promotional material on the club shop - it all fits! If there was an invisible cat on that chair, it would look empty - it looks empty, therefore there's an invisible cat on it!

Unfortunately, 2+2=5 sometimes. As happened a while ago when a different Sun writer (still at the paper and full of his own importance) wrote a story about a certain Premier League manager of the time going back to his former club to sign a central defender. It all made perfect sense - as long as you didn't know that the manager in question had had a, er, relationship with that player's wife that had led to a training-ground punch-up.

 

[OzMike]

First time Sporting Life has mentioned the Cheksea - Dunk story so could have some legs.

 

[Bevendean Hillbilly]

Its strange that they've let that happen. With the Argus it always previously seemed to be a bit of a rule that if they were to comment on transfer gossip it was because Naylor/Owen had some first hand insight on it. The integrity of the paper as a source of news has been damaged with her nonsense gossip articles. Hopefully normal service resumes soon.

Ohhh...whoa. The Argus and Naylor are now reputable and reliable.

My white arse.

 

[jackalbion]

The problem here is that there is a very persuasive logic behind it. Dunk is known to have been a Chelsea fan as a boy, Chelsea need new central defenders, Dunk is no longer front and centre of the promotional material on the club shop - it all fits! If there was an invisible cat on that chair, it would look empty - it looks empty, therefore there's an invisible cat on it!

Unfortunately, 2+2=5 sometimes. As happened a while ago when a different Sun writer (still at the paper and full of his own importance) wrote a story about a certain Premier League manager of the time going back to his former club to sign a central defender. It all made perfect sense - as long as you didn't know that the manager in question had had a, er, relationship with that player's wife that had led to a training-ground punch-up.

That screams Alan Pardew

 

[Weststander]

As happened a while ago when a different Sun writer (still at the paper and full of his own importance) wrote a story about a certain Premier League manager of the time going back to his former club to sign a central defender. It all made perfect sense - as long as you didn't know that the manager in question had had a, er, relationship with that player's wife that had led to a training-ground punch-up.

 

[Weststander]

First time Sporting Life has mentioned the Cheksea - Dunk story so could have some legs.

Weren’t they just relaying Sun On Sunday gossip, in their round up of newspapers?

 

[vagabond]

The line about Dunk's absence from the promotion material is the giveaway as to where some of this Sun story came from - ie here on NSC. Dan King's father-in-law is a season-ticket holder in WSL and has no doubt passed on the gossip.

[emoji56]

Hey Sun journos, a bit of credit to NSC would be nice. The Argus also picked up on this shortly after one of my posts (“eagle eyed fans may have spotted a clue in the Dunk transfer saga”).

 

[vagabond]

The problem here is that there is a very persuasive logic behind it. Dunk is known to have been a Chelsea fan as a boy, Chelsea need new central defenders, Dunk is no longer front and centre of the promotional material on the club shop - it all fits! If there was an invisible cat on that chair, it would look empty - it looks empty, therefore there's an invisible cat on it!

Unfortunately, 2+2=5 sometimes. As happened a while ago when a different Sun writer (still at the paper and full of his own importance) wrote a story about a certain Premier League manager of the time going back to his former club to sign a central defender. It all made perfect sense - as long as you didn't know that the manager in question had had a, er, relationship with that player's wife that had led to a training-ground punch-up.

Which player?

 

[Weststander]

Which player?

https://fabwags.com/cassie-sumner-fonte-jose-fontes-wife/

 

[The Fits]

Pardew had consensual sex with that lady?!

 

[DavePage]

Pardew had consensual sex with that lady?!

He was holding her picture at the time

 

[Saunders]

Nah it’s a junior or very non football girl covering it when others are away. They should be keeping the same style / copying the usual style whilst Owen is away - what they’re producing is nothing short of embarrassing.

Can we stop referring to her as a "girl" or even bring her sex into it. It makes us look pretty shit and there is enough to disagree with the badly done article without dragging us back to the seventies.

 

[One Teddy Maybank]

Can we stop referring to her as a "girl" or even bring her sex into it. It makes us look pretty shit and there is enough to disagree with the badly done article without dragging us back to the seventies.

Yes - this.


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