Transfer Window - COMPLETE. Where’s Gregg?

[Spartakfenni]

Hope Van den Berg is as good as another CB who played for Preston who joined us GH. God of a CB wished we’d got him earlier is his career. 

[rigger]

2 minutes ago, Spartakfenni said:

Hope Van den Berg is as good as another CB who played for Preston who joined us GH. God of a CB wished we’d got him earlier is his career. 

Hawkeye a proper defender.

[DanielMB]

I really hope JDT can welcome VDB rather than VDH because I really think VDB can TCB better than VDH can.

[jim mk2]

1 minute ago, DanielMB said:

I really hope JDT can welcome VDB rather than VDH because I really think VDB can TCB better than VDH can.

Congrats on so many acronyns in one sentence. Is this a quiz? 

[Sweaty Gussets]

4 minutes ago, jim mk2 said:

Congrats on so many acronyns in one sentence. Is this a quiz? 

Unsure. TBC. 

[Exiled_Rover]

13 minutes ago, DanielMB said:

I really hope JDT can welcome VDB rather than VDH because I really think VDB can TCB better than VDH can.

JCVD is feeling left out. 

[bluebruce]

27 minutes ago, Exiled_Rover said:

Unless he did it last night (I wasn't at the match) he's done it once this season, but yes he played with 3 CBs at Malmo on occasion too. I think he likes the flexibility.

He dropped to 3 at the back to shut down Swansea towards the end of that game. 

I thought I read he did it last night. I wasn't there either though and I could be misremembering what I read now I think on it. Perhaps moving Pickering to CB again made me think that, but that was to bring Wharton off. Having a look at Pickering as a CB still suggests to me he wants to go 3 at the back sometimes. I think it's an effective tool to have in our arsenal, we saw last season how difficult it can be to break down.

[bluebruce]

14 minutes ago, DanielMB said:

I really hope JDT can welcome VDB rather than VDH because I really think VDB can TCB better than VDH can.

In other words, IRHJDTCWVDBRTVDHBIRTVDBCTCBBTVDHC. No idea why you felt the need to be so wordy.

[JamieUK]

45 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

I think you find he was the one to break it but we are going off discussing transfers and whether they would be good signing here.

Sorry to disappoint but Alan Nixon's "exclusive" went out on the 23rd July - https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/19297029/blackburn-loan-liverpool-tyler-morton-exclusive/ His signing was being talked about on here 2 days earlier. I'm pretty sure there was a tweet in the morning of the 21st/22nd with a story to say it was happening too by another journalist - possibly The Mail?

[jim mk2]

TBH, the use of acronyms such as CB, LB, RB, RHM, CF, CH etc etc all the time is completely OTT. If folks are too lazy to post decent English they'd be better to STFU

[Dan]

1 hour ago, chaddyrovers said:

proper job in journalism?

Oxymoron? 😂

[Dan]

19 minutes ago, DanielMB said:

I really hope JDT can welcome VDB rather than VDH because I really think VDB can TCB better than VDH can.

I just hope he gets him PDQ. 

[jim mk2]

1 minute ago, JamieUK said:

Sorry to disappoint but Alan Nixon's "exclusive" went out on the 23rd July - https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/19297029/blackburn-loan-liverpool-tyler-morton-exclusive/ His signing was being talked about on here 2 days earlier. I'm pretty sure there was a tweet in the morning of the 21st/22nd with a story to say it was happening too by another journalist - possibly The Mail?

Nixon following up on a national newspaper story. Now there's a surprise. 

[Paul Mellelieu]

17 minutes ago, jim mk2 said:

Congrats on so many acronyns in one sentence. Is this a quiz? 

None of them are acronyms.

[Dan]

1 minute ago, jim mk2 said:

TBH, the use of acronyms such as CB, LB, RB, RHM, CF, CH etc etc all the time is completely OTT. If folks are too lazy to post decent English they'd be better to STFU

I knew you had a SOH Jim 😉

[islander200]

9 minutes ago, JamieUK said:

Sorry to disappoint but Alan Nixon's "exclusive" went out on the 23rd July - https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/19297029/blackburn-loan-liverpool-tyler-morton-exclusive/ His signing was being talked about on here 2 days earlier. I'm pretty sure there was a tweet in the morning of the 21st/22nd with a story to say it was happening too by another journalist - possibly The Mail?

It was on his Twitter before that sun piece and In fairness to Nixon he said on his Twitter that he couldn't take credit for breaking Morton.

He definitely did break the Brittain story though.

I take what he says with a pinch of salt and do think he is arrogant but going off his Twitter which I do read he has had quite a few exclusives that have come off this summer throughout the football league 

[Sweaty Gussets]

9 minutes ago, jim mk2 said:

TBH, the use of acronyms such as CB, LB, RB, RHM, CF, CH etc etc all the time is completely OTT. If folks are too lazy to post decent English they'd be better to STFU

 

7 minutes ago, Paul Mellelieu said:

None of them are acronyms.

I bet Nixon knows what an acronym is. 

[Atko's Engine]

Please, let's have Van Den Berg in quickly to:

A - be available for Sunday;

B - update the thread title, which is starting to look outdated; and

C - to save this thread from itself!!

Edited August 11, 2022 by Atko's Engine

[Dan]

8 minutes ago, Paul Mellelieu said:

None of them are acronyms.

[Galgaterover10]

Nixon is flakey at best especially his answers to questions on Twitter often just hedges his bets but we’ve also got to appreciate that these days there are very few ITKs on here and even less journalists reporting on rovers until a transfer is about to happen. So it is the hand we are dealt!

Not a word from any local journalists on Van Der Berg so either it’s not true or they are is in the dark as everyone.

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

1 hour ago, simongarnerisgod said:

good players is van den berg,the pne lot loved him,he`d be a welcome addition,just need a left back and centre forward now,though id`e love bowler to land here and i can`t believe styles is going to spend the season in league one

He looked very average last season when we played them away.

[simongarnerisgod]

1 hour ago, jim mk2 said:

Fly a kite 100 times and it's bound to be take off once

Nixon's a grubby online hack who wasn't good enough to get a proper job in journalism.

 

 

jim,you really need to let your nixon ire go,get a massage or similar,maybe  take the anger out on a stressball

[Lucimo]

Watford and Sheffield utd  now want him according to a rather shit source.  Does Heckingbottom just look who we want then jump in. Bang average manager 

[martonrover]

13 minutes ago, islander200 said:

It was on his Twitter before that sun piece and In fairness to Nixon he said on his Twitter that he couldn't take credit for breaking Morton.

He definitely did break the Brittain story though.

I take what he says with a pinch of salt and do think he is arrogant but going off his Twitter which I do read he has had quite a few exclusives that have come off this summer throughout the football league 

I still find it amazing that people expect a hack to be anywhere near 100% accurate with speculative information gleaned from a source.

Even if Gregg Broughton himself was the source drip feeding information to Alan Nixon, (and I know it won’t be him), information from a source has time limited validity, as transfers are subject to snags and changes of plan, from both club and player.

Alan Nixon clearly has a source at the club.

[Sweaty Gussets]

6 minutes ago, martonrover said:

Alan Nixon clearly has a source at the club.

More likely he has a few agents that feed him info.

Agent/journo is mutually beneficial relationship.