The Daily ITK Discussion Thread - 5th June 2013

[Parkie]

My fat fingers accidentally hit agree on this. I don't agree, because this is pony.

Anyway, if this ITK drought continues any fucking longer we're going to end up on a fucking ITK hosepipe ban.

Don't use the words "fucking" and "hosepipe" on here: think of what A&C could end up twisting out of that!

 

[tommyt]

Don't use the words "fucking" and "hosepipe" on here: think of what A&C could end up twisting out of that!

Your ascending colon?

 

[Gedson100]

I think we can close the book on 'Why is there no ITK?'
Until Baldini gets confirmed, it's most likely nobody outside the tight loop knows what our genuine targets are.

When he went to Roma, he worked unofficially for them prior to appointment, and whilst I'm not suggesting he's done that for us, a few emails sent our way may have got us sounding out a few players. Encouragingly, any Baldini appointment suddenly puts us up the list for South American talent, Bernard and his ilk would be welcomed with open arms, & interestingly, Bernard is the most valuable player on his agency's books, not a Kia Joobrichian (sp.) in sight.

So: get him signed on ASAP, and let's get moving.

 

[Supersi32]

My fat fingers accidentally hit agree on this. I don't agree, because this is pony.

Anyway, if this ITK drought continues any fucking longer we're going to end up on a fucking ITK hosepipe ban.

I was being sarcastic.

 

[Lilbaz]

The problem with Brazilian players is that 90% are 3rd party owned which is against the rules here but not some other European countries. This makes it difficult in negotiations. This may be about to change as Brazil look to make it illegal and could mean a lot of Brazilian players being moved about. Uefa are also looking at banning it.

http://uefaawareness.com/post/49934492517/brazils-regulators-focus-on-third-party-ownership-laws

May 8 - Brazilian clubs, fighting proposals to ban third party ownership of players, face a new threat from their own government which is proposing to ban the controversial practice.

The Brazilian government, in an emailed statement from the Sports Ministry, are preparing a proposal to ban clubs from selling player transfer rights to investors.

Brazilian clubs have, according to member of the lower house sports committee Vicente Candido, unpaid tax bills amounting to $2 billion. Much of this sum is believed to be related to third-party ownership plans, to which an estimated 90% of elite Brazilian players are subject, and which have constituted a major source of financing for Brazilian clubs.

On 22 April, a group of 21 Brazilian teams wrote an open letter to FIFA, copied to the Brazilian Sports Ministry, setting out their strong opposition to moves by UEFA and forces within FIFA to abolish third party ownership.

A number of agencies and investment funds involved in the business, often based in off-shore tax havens, argue the transactions are a legitimate form of lending and little different to the system of loaning players between clubs.

Jochen Loesch, president of international business at Traffic Sports, one company which has invested more than $75m in the rights of about 60 players since 2007, told Bloomberg in March, that any global ban “will be widely ignored by the market”, and that any such ban would not withstand legal action.
By Mark Baber

 

[EJWTartanSpur]

Seek help man!

Give up the pretence. We are all the same !

 

[etchedchaos]

Amazing how the ITK thread works, something major happens in the Baldini resignation and we muster a measly 11 pages. The fucked-up way this thread works, if we signed Leandro and Villa on the same day we might barely break 5 pages .

 

[Twizzle]

If we signed both of them there would be 11 pages of jizz

 

[etchedchaos]

If we signed both of them there would be 11 pages of jizz

Surely the mass explosions of jizz would be so violent that all posters would be knocked unconscious before they could post?

 

[Snarfalicious]

Surely the mass explosions of jizz would be so violent that all posters would be knocked unconscious before they could post?

Think of Randy Marsh and his Ectoplasm. That's what will happen to every poster simultaneously.

 

[shelfboy68]

I reckon before Baldini came he would have been told that he'd have 'x' amount of money to spend (hopefully a lot!!!) and this is what would sway him

Who would join as a DOF without knowing how much their budget was? And if it wasn't satisfactory, who would sign the contract?

Therefore if (and we have been led to believe he will) he does sign, it would signal the fact we have a decent budget to spend this window.

I very much doubt we have much to spend it's more
Likely levy will throw £20 at him and ask him to get what he can out of it.