Transfer Update - Paul Barber (merged)

[Joe Gatting's Dad]

So there we have it, but some of you will still not believe it.

Sami identifies which areas of the squad need improving.

David Burke then does the donkey work and identifies who is available to meet that criteria.

Offers are then made and the players arrive or not as the case may be.

So no undue interference from Burke or Barber.

 

[The Large One]

So there we have it, but some of you will still not believe it.

Sami identifies which areas of the squad need improving.

David Burke then does the donkey work and identifies who is available to meet that criteria.

Offers are then made and the players arrive or not as the case may be.

So no undue interference from Burke or Barber.

This sort of stuff has a sell-by date, it would seem. For some, it's a few days or weeks.

For others, it's the moment they stop reading it.

 

[portslade seagull]

Don't worry, the cool kids will soon move on from 'bedwetter' to the next trendy lingo.

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I think it is something they have all experienced themselves time and time again and then they need to impose it on everybody else by writing it on a forum the following day whilst there sheets are being washed to be ready for the next night ... bless them I think Tesco's might sell something that will help

 

[8ace]

Is "bedwetting" the new "creaming themselves"

 

[Chicken Runner61]

Mind you - for the next few weeks its going to be interesting seeing people trying not to wee and its going to be hard to tell the pissy knickers from the ones with incontinence

 

[KNC]

Disappointed. The font was FAR to large. He could have had at least another 50 paragraphs with a smaller one.

 

[Munkfish]

There's some people on this forum that would benefit from the following paragraphs;

"Transfer windows are strange beasts. They don’t always work on the inside in the way fans, journalists or other observers perceive them to work from the outside."

“It’s a complex, competitive and highly unpredictable business. And, in a climate where financial fair play is biting in different ways, cool heads and patience is absolutely key."

“I would also ask our fans to also be patient. However frustrating it may be for some of our supporters, it makes no sense for us to talk publicly about our targets, our budget or our priorities - but fans should not mistake this silence for inactivity."

Isn't this what the majority of us have been saying? I am fully confident that come the opening day of the season we will have a squad good enough to compete for the playoffs and by September 1 we will have one of the strongest sides in the league outside of the relegated 3.

Its funny how a well written article can change peoples minds, for me all that stood out too. They are agreeing with what people have been saying, however articulating in the way that they have, people are seeing this as positive news, just after a transfer.

The Marketing guys could do with a bit of a kick up the chuff, but whoever is in charge of communications does a bloody good job.

 

[deletebeepbeepbeep]

This seems like an expectation damping exercise for people who expect us to go out and buy players for stacks of cash now that we have made one significant signing.

 

[Phat Baz 68]

It makes perfect sense what that statement actually says, but hasn't more or less, the same thing been said every season for the last three seasons ?
It's great to tell the fans what they expect to hear, but now practice what you preach springs to mind.
Not written by himself more likely to have been written by a press officer for the club.
Not having a pop but, but it's less than two weeks until the beginning of the season now and we have again been one of the quietest clubs on the transfer fronts.

 

[DarrenFreemansPerm]

To summarise: stop wetting the bed. Although I suppose PB is paid to put it more subtly than that.

Or more eloquently.

 

[Shoreham Gull]

Basically p.barber reads NSC..

And been reading our comments on transfers and peoples moans

 

[glasfryn]

Basically p.barber reads NSC..

And been reading our comments on transfers and peoples moans

if that is the case and I doubt he reads it probably someone in his office does CLACKERS bad idea otherwise you are doing OK

 

[Dan Aitch]

If Paul Barber is reading this... go and have a cuppa instead.

Nothing to see here. Move along.

 

[Goldstone1976]

If Paul Barber is reading this... go and have a cuppa instead.

Nothing to see here. Move along.

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

if that is the case and I doubt he reads it probably someone in his office does CLACKERS bad idea otherwise you are doing OK

He does read NSC to keep his finger on the pulse otherwise Seagulls Player would have lost nearly all of its customers.

 

[spring hall convert]

one of the quietest clubs on the transfer fronts.

I'm not saying that you're wrong because I don't have the numbers but I doubt that signing 4 players makes us "one of the quietest."

 

[leigull]

Just a shame its taken a while for Mr Barber to come out and speak

No it isn't. It's a shame he has to come out and do this sort of thing because fans can't control themselves if the club does not sign big money players on a regular basis.

 

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

No it isn't. It's a shame he has to come out and do this sort of thing because fans can't control themselves if the club does not sign big money players on a regular basis.

Exactly. I was actually cringing Barber's article.

Not because of what he was saying. It was very well written.

It's the sheer fact that the club/he felt he needed to.

Amazing.

 

[tip top]

Has Barber ever released a statement that hasn't included the words financial fair play?

I wonder if he dreams about it in his queen size bed each night.

 

[Stoo82]

I miss the windowlickers, this word caused no controversy when used in public ever. FACT*.


*Not actually a fact. But it is ironic it was the bedwetters who once again screamed to the hills for a policeman.