Summer Transfer Window - Credible Rumours Only Please

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Threre will now be two separate threads for this - this one in the Everton forum, for serious and realistic transfer speculation. Please justify your reasons for suggesting a linked player in this thread.

The other, for players we'd like to see but has zero basis in fact, is here; https://www.grandoldteam.com/forum/threads/silly-season-transfer-speculation.76611/

Please be sensible and be warned that any off topic posts that come to our attention will be infracted and/or threadbanned.

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It might seem overly draconian and just being done to annoy people but it's not, annoying folk is just a nice by product !

Last summer, and January to a lesser extent, quite a few lurkers contacted us saying the transfer thread was clogged up with various things such as cat gifs, cliquey in jokes and transfer stuff which plainly had no chance of happening.

If you look at the number of views a thread gets and compare it to the number of posts you get an indication of how many people are lurking. As I type, we're on post 1454 with 108,000 views ( 74 views per post )

The other thread is on a ratio of 672 to 21,500 ( 32 views per post )

For comparison, go to the Everton forum and click on "views" to order by that. Below the stickied threads the top 2 are the transfer threads from the last season with 3.2 and 1.3 million views respectively. Our most viewed match thread is on page 2 at 150,000 views.

Basically GOT is bloody huge

Anyway, the views on the 2 current transfer threads tells us two things

  1. This thread's more popular than the speculation thread ( though that might partly because it's stickied ) and
  2. It has more lurkers checking up on what people is likely to happen
Those of us who are on GOT on a regular basis tend to forget that there are loads of Blues using this place who rarely,if ever, post. They're as entitled as anyone else to use this place and, if we can make it easier for them to read what they're really interested in without overly stressing the posters, then it's not a bad idea to do so.

TL;DR ?

It's being done for the lurking majority
 
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http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/virgil-van-dijk-tells-celtic-5858428

Virgil want's out!

Make a move Bobby!

(And again, those saying "why is he still at Celtic if he's so good?", there's your answer. There's been offers but they've refused to sell)

Be honest mate. Do you really think he's good enough?

I've seen him a few times and yeah he's looked good, but when he's playing against Motherwell it's a bit hard to really tell isn't it?
 

This will have descended into farce again by midday

For the avoidance of doubt

This thread is for credible rumours, even vaguely credible ones.
If someone persistently makes posts saying stuff like "I know this is jarg but ..." then they'll be thread banned till the end of the transfer window

If people want to go off piste in a Fantasy Football / FM / FIFA kind of way then https://www.grandoldteam.com/forum/threads/silly-season-transfer-speculation.76611 is the place for them. If posters go into that thread mocking those ideas then they'll be thread banned from that one
 
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will be buzzing if we can manage to get Del back. Del, a CB, and a playmaker like Payet and the forum would melt down. not going to happen like, but even 2 of the 3 would be ace
 

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