procdoc
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Media outlets confirmed we had multiple bids for Hughes rejected yet Chris is in denial
Does anyone else feel that we’ve been sold short ? (4 Viewers)
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How can you live on this forum and yet not have read anywhere about the Hughes bids ??
Speedie's Head
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Don't worry Chris it's good thing not be gullible! The way the transfer window plays in the press is all about advertising for them and the "facts" come second third and fourth.
In any protracted negotiation that I've been involved there will be an agreement between sides about what to say, if anything, in public. If one side is leaking through a press contact (truths, partial truths, incomplete pictures, complete BS) then it's likely to be for nefarious reasons. The public is being played and fans lap it all up.
If you think clubs spend any time talking to each about how to respond to press comment on transfers then you don’t know the business side of football.
Speedie's Head
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Exactly, nothing will be said! Another approach is to an agree a short statement aong the lines of "talks are taking place and some progress is being made..."
My impression is that the club might have been looking at Hughes, with Woolfenden, or one or the other but needed to raise funds. We tried all summer to move MVE and it didn't happen and we went with Woolfenden and sold Sheaf. The fact that this was was all finalised last minute really tells us that we probably needed the sale to complete the picture. Just because some reporter said that Hull's price is in excess of £10m doesn't mean he was coming or that £10m is available for another player or that we were ever going to get Hughes at £10m. If you look back over the summer 90% of the stories in the papers and on Sky and 99% of the Twitter stories will be proven to be nothing.
Cally Fedora
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Ah yes. Media outlets. Famed for accuracy and reliability.
Trueskyblue20
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Well that’s obviously circumstantial.
The sun gossip column for instance may be likely to peddle any old bollocks but Hull’s main reporter would not be reporting on 3 rejected bids if they were not real. Not to mention the fact the fans didn’t want to accept so it had absolutely no benefit to the noise surrounding the move whatsoever.
rob9872
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Local news is dead. Our main reporter is Andy Turner and he gets his rehashed stories from places like this. I imagine there will be stories on the Hull sites saying 'there must be something in it, their main reporter has said so'.
Trueskyblue20
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The same Andy Turner who knew about Rapha leaving before any of us or any national media outlets or any supposed ITK’s had heard of?
You only have to look on Twitter to see Hull fans seem to believe what Baz writes so he is obviously credible.
Ccfcisparks
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someone on this forum said Rapha was leaving well before turner did
rob9872
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Hi Andy
JimmyHillsbeard
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Would now be a good time to remind folk that Turkish sides can still sign players until Sept 12? We may not have quite heard the last of the MvE to Besiktas rumours.
Trueskyblue20
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Think it was only one person who suggested it and we were all left guessing at 9pm who the outgoing was as no one seemed to have a clue. Most people seemed to suggest it was Bidwell going.
My overall point though is that the local media teams close each clubs will get given information directly. To suggest Baz at Hull is making these 3 bids up is just a bit strange.
Ccfcisparks
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No he explicitly said Rapha and got laughed at
Is he the old celebrity writer from the sun, genuine question?
AOM
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Really can't see any more outgoings now unless the offers were ridiculously high imo.
Think there'd be uproar now if we sold van Ewijk
CWR and Cov Telegraph get briefed by the club before an announcement is made so they can prepare their own articles. Very rarely do they have any exclusive reporting beyond that
Calista
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We might have done better to just wait for that instead of tracking 626 pages of fantasy on the transfer thread tbh
Otis
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No, because though he was a good player in his day, his legs have now gone and he wouldn't have come here anyway.
