Hello mein frandelinos and welcome to the first edition of the Weasel Index, Summer 2019.
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Weasels in their natural environment, recording a podcast. Credit as usual to @Sapie88 from beyond the GOT grave.
Is it the unseasonably warm weather?
Is it that the King Goblin himself, James Pearce, has summoned them all with his Kopite scribblings and misappropriation of videos of Man City players, out of context and with the journalistic rigour of a typing pool intern?
More on Pearce (try this phonetically, it works too) as the summer progresses.
But.
We will never know why they have returned again.
But they have upset the transfer window lawn of GrandOldTeam.com and their mating calls can be heard throughout the land.
"Don't shoot the messenger".
"Heard from a mate who..."
"Just passing the info on"
"No wonder all the good ITKs leave".
Squawking. Chirping. Bleating. They are multiplying.
And now we must keep a record. An Index, if you will.
As ever, 10 points for a Weaseling (a rumour), accumulative until the end of the transfer window. Public. There for all to see.
But if the rumour is right, the Origin of the Weasel (the prime rumourer) goes directly onto The Mole10 Glory List (this might be renamed, I can't remember).
Many of you will remember
@themole10 , unequivocally the greatest source of transfer rumours and by all accounts, an actual published journalist. Who was this daring servant of the people? Which year did he win the Pulitzer?
We may also never know this. But we know, instinctively, that the shoddy journalism of the hated lickspittle Pearce would have been anathema to him. So we honour his memory.
Weasel Index so far:
Dount Coun't on it -
@TheCount says Andre Gomes a done deal
https://www.grandoldteam.com/forum/threads/andre-gomes.104835/post-7041148
The only PED that
@arminisgod likes is for cycle-cheating - but he's saying two strikers will join us on Tour this summer
https://www.grandoldteam.com/forum/threads/summer-transfer-window-2019.106084/post-7028339
MalcomNigh?
@SerenityNigh predicts the Barcelona winger joining soon
https://www.grandoldteam.com/forum/threads/summer-transfer-window-2019.106084/post-7024984
Callum Wil-he, Won't he? Serial fibteller
@royalblue66 reckons Callum Wilson is on his way
https://www.grandoldteam.com/forum/threads/joão-pedro-sousa.107103/post-7035204
Talking bol-uks (I've done this one before)?
@bol-uk is walking in Memphis, meet and greets on Stockton Heath
https://www.grandoldteam.com/forum/threads/summer-transfer-window-2019.106084/post-7037198
Speaking of James (booo), an old favourite returns. James Rodriguez to fight it out with Dowell and Lookman next season. I'll
@Azza a guess and say this one isn't happening.
https://www.grandoldteam.com/forum/threads/summer-transfer-window-2019.106084/post-7024771
Kurt rustled? Zouma won't be coming home says
@Chimpy Glassman https://www.grandoldteam.com/forum/threads/summer-transfer-window-2019.106084/post-6925557
An early double rumour here - magic!
@Wizard says Batshuayi IN Cenk OUT. Double points and excellent use of "take it or leave it" and "Will continue to pass on information that I trust though" . Actually that's a quadruple. ://www.grandoldteam.com/forum/threads/summer-transfer-window-2019.106084/post-7027995
Week One Index (won't actually be weekly as I'm too lazy)
1.
@Wizard 40 Weasel Points
=2.
@TheCount 10 Weasel Points
=2.
@arminisgod 10 Weasel Points
=2.
@SerenityNigh 10 Weasel Points
=2.
@royalblue66 10 Weasel Points
=2.
@bol-uk 10 Weasel Points
=2.
@Azza 10 Weasel Points
=2.
@Chimpy Glassman 10 Weasel Points
@themole10 Glory List
No confirmed signings and not a single Weasel called Lossl before the papers.
THE WEASEL INDEX NEEDS YOU!!
What was that, the nibbling on your ankle?
The squeak in the night?
The podcast in your ears?
As ever, we need our true GrandOldTeam.com heroes, the Weasel Hunters. You have waited. You have watched. And now, we call on you once more to serve.