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nailsy

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I'm not sure what the probelm is with signing the keeper. We need a 3rd choice keeper for a year and he's available, has Premier League experience and isn't going to cost much. I appreciate the frustration over the lack of signings in other areas, but he seems like a fairly good choice as a back-up.
 

stoddle

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We're not getting a marquee signing guys, we don't pay marquee player wages. Stop setting yourselves up for disappointment
Agree. The last VDV style signing was...well...VDV. Different way of operating these days.
 

whitechina

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I'm not sure what the probelm is with signing the keeper. We need a 3rd choice keeper for a year and he's available, has Premier League experience and isn't going to cost much. I appreciate the frustration over the lack of signings in other areas, but he seems like a fairly good choice as a back-up.
Added to this he is known to Poch and the other coaches, so I feel he wouldn't rock the boat and fit in with the other players.
 

spursfast

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That would be my guess. Presumably if you mash up the ITK - the player was here for the Green Screen shots - hence the name on the shirt. Barkley would be able to get in unnoticed, and with Siggy getting done this weekend, it frees up Everton to move Barkley on Monday.
its going to be our third choice goalie
 

GetSpurredOn

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Gazzaniga doesn't fit with the ITK today of a signing Monday, about how 'hush hush' it is. The story of us being about to sign him have been all over the media for the last two days, it's hardly going under the radar.

I believe the player on Monday is the same player JJ and Greyfox have also been told to keep quiet. To be that delicate, it's not a 3rd choice keeper from Southampton, it'll more likely be someone largely not discussed so far, a player we'd rather not alert others to his availability. Quietly confident this is going to be a signing to be pleased about, either someone to come in and provide us the next level, or else someone with huge potential that we'll have stolen a march on other clubs by getting it done. There has been so much talk from the ITK about how this signing is being kept quiet, it only makes sense it's someone the club obviously do not want to miss out on, so the player must be seen as a key addition, and the whole furore over secrecy suggests it's not anyone widely linked in the media.

Incidentally I'm not to worried about Gazzaniga, relatively cheap in today's market, can't see him rocking the boat, and the fact Poch and Jiminez have worked with him before and still want him, tells me there's more to him than the media believe. He must have something going on that they have seen previously when training with them every day, that they're happy to go back in for.
 
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daryl hannah

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Barkley was pictured at Everton's training ground yesterday so couldn't been with us for green screen shots
means nothing. they always do the bulk of the team in one go, and new signings later on with a portable greenscreen studio after they've signed. ie., there's more than one greenscreen shoot going on.
 

Bulletspur

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That would be my guess. Presumably if you mash up the ITK - the player was here for the Green Screen shots - hence the name on the shirt. Barkley would be able to get in unnoticed, and with Siggy getting done this weekend, it frees up Everton to move Barkley on Monday.
Barkley leaving to go to any other club is not dependent on Everton signing Siggy or any other player

Not necessarily, Liverpool to London is about 4 hrs drive, he was pictured leaving Everton's training ground yesterday morning...
How slow do you drive?
 

strader

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Can't believe some of you, with me on HAST time zone, until Tuesday before the announcement.
 

nailsy

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That would be my guess. Presumably if you mash up the ITK - the player was here for the Green Screen shots - hence the name on the shirt. Barkley would be able to get in unnoticed, and with Siggy getting done this weekend, it frees up Everton to move Barkley on Monday.

How is Barkley going to get in unnoticed? Has he been digging a tunnel all this time?
 

nailsy

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Well, I assume he can drive straight in (and back out) without anyone outside the team noticing - no airport or taxi ITK...

Possibly, but if he was there for the Green Screen isn't that a Sky thing? Wouldn't there be Sky employees there who would probably mention it to their colleagues in Sky Sports News? Surely if you're trying to keep it out of the media, you don't send the player to a media event to have his picture taken?
 

freeeki

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Possibly, but if he was there for the Green Screen isn't that a Sky thing? Wouldn't there be Sky employees there who would probably mention it to their colleagues in Sky Sports News? Surely if you're trying to keep it out of the media, you don't send the player to a media event to have his picture taken?

We managed it with Adebayor
 
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