The Daily ITK Discussion Thread - 17th July

[SpartanSpur]

We obviously have vastly different definitions of the word "fun".



No, but we are forced to wade through pages of guesses in order to find anything relevant or interesting. And, as was shown yesterday, the thread will be locked when the mods have had enough. But this has been done to death, every single transfer window.

Usually ITK whores tend to put their updates in blue so they are pretty easy to pick up, as is JJs twitter due to his increasing use of emojis which blow up pretty big for some reason, this should help with the wading...

 

[Klinsmann33]

I don't mean to be a party pooper, but am I the only one who who has concerns about buying a player from Serie A?

Maybe I'm wrong, but the track record isn't fantastic in recent years. Coutinho is probably the main exception.

I'm a big fan of lamela, but his challenges have been well documented. And he still arguably hasn't come close to replicating his form in Italy (in terms of stats/output anyway).

Maybe I'm completely wrong, but just an observation

 

[Deleted member 27995]

I don't mean to be a party pooper, but am I the only one who who has concerns about buying a player from Serie A?

Maybe I'm wrong, but the track record isn't fantastic in recent years. Coutinho is probably the main exception.

I'm a big fan of lamela, but his challenges have been well documented. And he still arguably hasn't come close to replicating his form in Italy (in terms of stats/output anyway).

Maybe I'm completely wrong, but just an observation

Probably the wrong thread to be wondering in.

 

[CheltYid]

So it's a "him", eh?

That rules out Dr Who.
Sorry.

 

[Rob]

There goes the Dybala/Higuain dream

(Joke btw)

They were mentioned...

 

[pffft]

I can confirm someone's named him in this thread ;-)

Not that much of a surprise considering half the players in Serie A have been named. You're not going to tell us who it is though, so the guessing is pretty pointless.

But it's your site. If you're happy with the endless guesses then so be it.

 

[Tucker]

Why do people feel the need to guess a list of 60 players every time there's a bit of itk?

Does anybody really think that jj is going to keep a name back- for whatever reason- but then tell us who it is when their name appears on a guess-list?

"I wasn't going to say anything because of important reasons, but since some random dude on a forum managed to guess the player in his list of 27, I'll confirm it and risk it leaking so we lose the player."

And why are people losing their shit over players that are just a guess?

All jj's latest itk tells us- at best- is that we might be buying someone from Italy. How about- and I know this is radical- you show a little bit of patience, and just see what happens?

Honestly, this place is like a kindergarten sometimes.

Agreed, people throwing names in the air is really annoying. Especially when you log on and see the thread has grown 5 pages in the last hour, and think, "great there's some ITK" but when you read through it, it's just the same five people guessing and repeating names that have been said dozens of times already.

Less kindergarten and more asylum.

Nobody forces you to read these comments.

No, but some of us like to check the thread to see if there's been any ACTUAL news. For whatever reason, it doesn't always go in the RO.

When it's full of pointless guessing, that can be quite frustrating.

 

[Rob]

Not that much of a surprise considering half the players in Serie A have been named. You're not going to tell us who it is though, so the guessing is pretty pointless.

But it's your site. If you're happy with the endless guesses then so be it.

It sure beats endless formations

 

[Deleted member 27995]

Not that much of a surprise considering half the players in Serie A have been named. You're not going to tell us who it is though, so the guessing is pretty pointless.

But it's your site. If you're happy with the endless guesses then so be it.

Let us never talk about any itk ever again.

Fin.

 

[Trix]

I can confirm someone's named him in this thread ;-)

I have a feeling Rob he will be named at least twice in this thread very soon if he hasn't already. That is of course after everybody has reposted their original guess, now you have just said that.

 

[raymar31]

Ross Barkitaly

 

[oskathegobshite]

Buzzing if we got Locatelli

 

[fatpiranha]

Can't believe I just spent 20 minutes searching for footballers called Vitali on the off chance that JJ was being cryptic .

 

[jurgen]

It could be the highly touted youth player from Napoli - Mayda Upper

#alreadymentioned

 

[Everlasting Seconds]

How many are now going through each post looking for a winner rating from Rob?

 

[THFCSPURS19]

I can confirm someone's named him in this thread ;-)

So, it is one of: Berardi, De Sciglio, Schick, Keita Balde, Kean, Marcelo Brozovic, Alfred Duncan, Assane Dioussé, Stefano Sensi, Ádám Nagy, Karol Linetty, Lucas Torreira, Godfred Donsah, Seko Fofana, Jakub Jankto, Mario Lemina, Stefano Sturaro, Matias Vecino, Marco Benassi, Locatelli, Chiesa, Zielinski, Romagnoli, Jovetic, Ljajic, Zappacosta, Pjaca, Gabriel Barbosa, Lucas Boyé, Davide Calabria, Bryan Cristante, Lorenzo Dickmann, Pol Lirola, Rolando Mandragora, Andrea Petagna, Andrea Pinamonti, Giovanni Simeone.

Well done guys. Go Team!

 

[Klinsmann33]

Probably the wrong thread to be wondering in.

Is that not discussing the piece of information that we have been given that we are targeting player in Italy?

Not being pedantic, but if that isn't relevant for this thread, I don't know what is.

 

[bomberH]

I can confirm someone's named him in this thread ;-)

I managed it. We're after Anal McMidgetporn.

 

[Deleted member 27995]

Is that not discussing the piece of information that we have been given that we are targeting player in Italy?

Not being pedantic, but if that isn't relevant for this thread, I don't know what is.

Oh right.

 

[nugsie]

Would LOVE it to be Pjaca.