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Archibald&Crooks

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Right. Here goes.........

I've been otherwise engaged over the past few days and you've taken advantage so here's where we're at.

By rights a large number of you should be, around about now, checking news now for your transfer fix. But I'm a softie at heart so you're lucky this one time, plus I just don't have the time to do it.

There won't be warnings in thread, the trigger will just be pulled and PM's asking why will not be answered (they NEVER are) because I don't have time to get involved in the inevitable tit-for-tat exchange of messages x100 so I'll give you the reason now. You broke the rules.

So unless your post is directly related to any ITK we get today I'll get Errol to feed you to the pigs. If anyone wants to moan about not signing anyone/Levy, feel free, it'll be your last post in here.

It royally pisses me off when I have to have these crackdowns because I don't like being a nazi but FFS, you don't make it easy. Bunch of mingewranglers.

==== Rob's Rant ===

Thought I'd chip in here so you can see it's not just A&C being a ****!

The rules in here are strict. Like COYSesque strict. We know that. People try to argue with us that the rules are unfair and too strict. We know that. It's for a reason and it's grown like that with 15 years of experience. We have thousands upon thousands of people here every day and if we relax the rules just a little bit, it descends into chaos. If we give someone a warning for a minor rule break, 50 people will see that it's ok to break that rule and follow suit, before we know it the thread is locked and is all being deleted.

I'd go as far as saying the rules probably are unfair at an individual level. Yeah, you personally might well get screwed over by them. At a community level, they're necessary to maintain any semblance of order.

If you get banned, you can still log out and read all the info/posts, you just can't contribute any more. Given that it was you breaking the rules in the first place, your contributions are likely not wanted anyway so I think that's a good compromise. We don't hide all the info behind a wall like other forums but we also have to enforce that contributions follow the rules so it doesn't descend into chaos.

The number of PMs we get that start "I can't access the transfer forum. I'd be shocked if I'm banned as I've never broken the rules...". Yeah, well *shock*. A&C ignores them by default now. I tell people to message A&C, who then ignores them. Now people have started pestering the other mods. At best any PM like that is going to get ignored, at worst it'll double the (already indefinite and possibly permanent*) length of any ban.

Read the rules, understand the rules, don't be shocked if you still end up on wrong side of them and most of all, STOP FUCKING SENDING US PMS ABOUT IT!




*That's right, you'll be double-permanent banned :p
 
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tiger666

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Who: The Goat
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The Goat hears that Dembele at Barca being offered about by agents. We are one of the clubs he would consider. Also that 'our' Dembele is staying.
 

tiger666

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Oh well. I'm far from our Dembeles biggest fan but all good if we can get one more season out of him I guess.
 

mill

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Would love to get dembele so it’s obviously not gonna happen, I refuse to get excited over the possibility
 

Johnny J

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Who: The Goat
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The Goat hears that Dembele at Barca being offered about by agents. We are one of the clubs he would consider. Also that 'our' Dembele is staying.
Interesting info.

I'd be astonished if Ousmane Dembele is available on anything other than a loan, or a really expensive transfer with a really cheap buy back clause for Barca.
 

THFCjosh

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Interesting about Barca's Dembele, he's a Spurs fan too so reckon he would come here. Although judging by how much Barca paid for him, no chance we sign him.
 

MightyModric

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Ousmane Dembele would be a great signing.

Stacks of potential, just needs the playing time to show it and develop which he won't be getting from Barca.

Fully onboard with this one
 

tommo84

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Is it that Dembele who was pictured with a Spurs shirt?

Yes, but can't see us being able to afford him. Barca paid huge money for him not long ago. Read a few media reports from Spain this week which would support the Goat's info, but he'll also be being offered to richer clubs than us.
 

luptic

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yeah it is, huge price tag around someone so young probably hasn't helped. But I'm a bit underwhelmed if we are interested in him, as he hasn't shown anything of the levels stats since he was as Rennes.
 

tiger666

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Interesting about Barca's Dembele, he's a Spurs fan too so reckon he would come here. Although judging by how much Barca paid for him, no chance we sign him.

He was pictured in a spurs shirt. That doesn't make him a Spurs fan. I had a Man United, Juventus and Barca shirt as a younger man.
 

mil1lion

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No chance we sign Ousmane Dembele

Good news on Mousa though. I just hope we don't overplay him. I thought he did great at times last season but come the back end of the season was way off the pace. We still should try and get a successor to him for the long run.
 

mill

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yeah it is, huge price tag around someone so young probably hasn't helped. But I'm a bit underwhelmed if we are interested in him, as he hasn't shown anything of the levels stats since he was as Rennes.
6 goals and 13 assists in the bundesliga the year before he went Barca isn’t bad especially considering his age
 

mightyspur

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Is the Barca Dembele better than the Celtic Dembele? He's also linked to Arse according to the papers (Barca Dembele, not the Celtic Dembele)
 
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