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The Daily ITK Discussion Thread - 30 May 2011

dimiSpur

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You forgot to factor in the cups of coffee to stay awake with to monitor the signing (when they happen) x amount of days/weeks/months after the ITK comes out :wink:

Usually 1 cup of coffee lasts me 3 hours in terms of staying awake. 250g (usual Jacobs coffee pack) lasts around 30 cups. 1 Jacobs coffee pack is £2.80 (I think).

I'm going to need coffee from around 11PM onwards till about 4AM. That's about 3 cups. So 3 cups a night. Plus the need for 2 in the morning after a heavy night of SC browsing, so about 5.

84 days multiplied by 5 cups a SC day, 420 cups of coffee will be consumed by moi over the silly season. That's 14 packages of Jacobs at £2.80 = £39.20.

Small change in comparison to the lorryload of salt I need really.
 

nickspurs

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English transfer window opens the day after the end of the season according to the FA rules and regulations. Many other European countries don't open until July 1st. So in theory we could register the paperwork for a player from within England, but couldn't register the paperwork for a player who is in a country where the window is still closed.

As I posted the other day, Isn't it pretty academic? It's just an agreement between two clubs and a player that matters. The registering at the relevant football authority is a requirement for formalising the move for playing in that league. I thought the announcement in April showed us this - his registration occurred much later.

I actually think we'll get 1-2 bits of substantial early business done. Given a painful summer of ManUSA/Chelski being linked with our best players via the clown-press I think Levy will be wanting to "prove ambition" just in case that becomes an issue.
 

kdspur

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As I posted the other day, Isn't it pretty academic? It's just an agreement between two clubs and a player that matters. The registering at the relevant football authority is a requirement for formalising the move for playing in that league. I thought the announcement in April showed us this - his registration occurred much later.

I actually think we'll get 1-2 bits of substantial early business done. Given a painful summer of ManUSA/Chelski being linked with our best players via the clown-press I think Levy will be wanting to "prove ambition" just in case that becomes an issue.


well thats what we all want in terms of statement of intent but it wont happen. u know it and we all know it. long 2 months or more ahead and we are way down food chain again in terms of big players
 

nidge

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I actually think we'll get 1-2 bits of substantial early business done. Given a painful summer of ManUSA/Chelski being linked with our best players via the clown-press I think Levy will be wanting to "prove ambition" just in case that becomes an issue.

It's already started. One rag reckons Utd have bid £20 million for Modric :roll: and another has suggested a cash plus Berbatov deal.
 

luptic

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I think its about time we started putting bids in for Rodney, vidic, luiz etc
 

McArchibald

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12 weeks of the transfer window, multiplied by 7 days a week = 84 days.

Average of 5 ITK updates a day = 420 ITK updates.

Salt needed for 1 ITK update: 0.25kg

Salt needed for entire window: 120kg's

I had 30kg's and there's been 62 updates (worth 15.5kg's), so that leaves my stack for the window at 14.5kg's. So I need to buy 105.5kg's of salt, 89 replacement F5 buttons and a great big shed to put it all in.

Boy this window's gonna cost me.

Usually 1 cup of coffee lasts me 3 hours in terms of staying awake. 250g (usual Jacobs coffee pack) lasts around 30 cups. 1 Jacobs coffee pack is £2.80 (I think).

I'm going to need coffee from around 11PM onwards till about 4AM. That's about 3 cups. So 3 cups a night. Plus the need for 2 in the morning after a heavy night of SC browsing, so about 5.

84 days multiplied by 5 cups a SC day, 420 cups of coffee will be consumed by moi over the silly season. That's 14 packages of Jacobs at £2.80 = £39.20.

Small change in comparison to the lorryload of salt I need really.


The fascinating phenomenon of the Transfer Window captured in telling statistics. Praise be :clap::clap:

On that front; how many inches of fingernail can one expect to consume over the course of the Window? How many litres of sweat will be generated? How many household objects will be broken in frustration at yet another collapsed transfer deal? And how many marriages/relationships will founder due to the excessive amount of time spent by one of the partners looking at this and other websites?

Its going to be a long and gruesome transfer window. Good thing I quit smoking some while ago - with today's tobacco prices I would have had to file for bankrupcy on september 1st...
 

venablesphil

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"Tottenham are set to announce the signing of Aston Villa goalkeeper Brad Friedel on a two-year deal to replace the error-prone Heurelho Gomes as the club's number one for next season."

From BBC Gossip page - but taken from the Daily Mail so dimispur may need to double his Salt intake with this one!
 

Archibald&Crooks

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"Tottenham are set to announce the signing of Aston Villa goalkeeper Brad Friedel on a two-year deal to replace the error-prone Heurelho Gomes as the club's number one for next season."

From BBC Gossip page - but taken from the Daily Mail so dimispur may need to double his Salt intake with this one!

You don't need salt when reading anything from the Daily Mail.

You need a shovel.
 
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