NAMING RIGHTS THREAD: Liverpool really won't win the Premiership 2010-2011

says a big transfer story and not man u getting sold.

on his twitter now

someone link this when it happens because i don't care enough about refreshing the grauniad website

oh wait lol that is breaking news? that inter may make a bid for a player? YAWN

oh ffs, inter to make 40m bid for bale

WOW

haha, was just coming to yawn about that. Club want to spend money on player who is quite good.

let the abuse of ian prior commence

hmm, from the time i clicked on it to the time i accidentally clicked back it went from "will make bid" to "are making spectacular raid".

if maicon wasn't walking wounded when spurs played inter presumably bale would only be worth 15m

Wow, that manages to be both boring AND annoying at the same time.

http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23exclusive

That *is* what I'd heard. Told you it wasn't really worth waiting for.

you were right

if maicon wasn't walking wounded when spurs played inter presumably bale would only be worth 15m

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If Inter weren't falling asleep on account of being lol 4-0 up against a 10 men team...

pretty sure this has a net negative result for the guardian, and ian prior's credibility. shame on him.

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Inter to bid £40m for Bale in summer? that is one shite #guardianexclusive. Here's my #exclusive - Torquay not thinking of buying Messi

Me buying a lottery ticket and wondering about what it would buy me today:: The staff at Torquay wondering how they can get Messi.

If it was 'Inter have bought Bale' then kudos Guardian but BIG MASSIVE EXCLUSIVE ONE TEAM IS INTERESTED IN A PLAYER, WE KNOW, WE READ MULTIPLE STORIES ABOUT IT ON GOAL.COM just makes me think twice about buying a copy next time I walk past a newsstand.

There's also rumours about a player called Sturridge leaving City

GUARDIAN EXCLUSIVE - Manchester United are hoping to win the Premiership this year

ian prior will have regretted some of this abuse on Twitter - but surely his 'exclusive', which has brought the story to a huge audience, will show him to be a man of action, and someone unlikely to back down when faced with the possibilities of keeping quiet, or speaking out

GUARDIAN EXCLUSIVE - I might have a sandwich tomorrow. Sources say this may take place at lunchtime.

phil mcnulty will have watched this foolish use of twitter with not a little bemusement, knowing that perhaps now he, a seasoned campaigner in the world of football writing, can seize the opportunity that the guardian's rash exclusive has placed in his lap.

one thing is clear, sir alex ferguson will have enjoyed every minute.

GUARDIAN EXCLUSIVE- Pope revealed to be Catholic.

prior now 12/1 to appear on next year's I'm a celeb

while it may be that this big money move for the highly-rated Bale will be hard for Tottenham to turn down, some people will argue that the London club may baulk at the prospect of losing such a talismanic figure.

One thing's for certain: the 21 year old welshman is causing a stir in the world of football.

This is all pretty funny stuff, but the FA's magnificently trollish timing of the Blackpool fine is still the funniest thing in the world to me

"Let them try and fine me, it's an absolute disgrace. I'll show the Premier League. We were a credit to football, and let the Premier League try to tell me otherwise."

This is a great opportunity for him to become a credit to shutting the fuck up for five minutes

yeah seriously, holloway really needs to have a word with himself, and then not have a word with anyone else for quite a while.

Yes, and maybe all the pundits can stop calling him a "breath of fresh air for the league" - he's just another mouthy git with but a different accent to Phil Brown.

IT'S FUNNY WE CALL HIM OLLIE DO YOU SEE?

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@ianprior the loser journalist has lost 400+ followers so far...lets get him DOWN to 6000 by the end of the day...please RT

I know the story was up there with every red top "exclusive" you get in a transfer window but organising an UNFOLLOW campaign is just sad.

Well, you can joke, but Holloway is a disingenuous bullshit merchant and for all his talk of playing the game the right way I expect him to revert to lump kicking type as soon as the honeymoon period ends for Blackpool, which will be a lot sooner than it was for Hull.

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You have to take out everything after "revert to lump kicking type" and replace it with "turn out to have a really fucking dodgy clause in his contract that gives him a percentage of all the transfers he makes a profit on", but otherwise my dogshit Arsenal fan troll persona was basically OTM all along.

fair play to Prior for retweeting tbh :)

xposting myself

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2008/jul/19/premierleague.serieafootball

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2009/may/05/manchester-united-franck-ribery-bayern-munich-cristiano-ronaldo

any others we can recall? sure there's a couple more chelsea ones.

constant obvious hypemanning on the blogs is prob worse tbf.

tbf the ribery one is supposedly true but this was pre- teenage hookers

ianprior
RT @DannyT78: Not sure how #thfc can describe #guardianexclusive as 'rubbish'. It says Inter willl bid, not that Spurs will accept
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lol yes use the pissweakness of the story in your defence, good one

that kaka one was on the front page of the print edition of the observer....what a joke. lost any faith in them after that.

on a week when they're pillorying sky might want to take a look at themselves.

I'm still curious about nbs protecting his sources tbh. Fortune teller? Phone hacking? Like *this* with Moratti?

When Phil McNulty is scoring points off the quality of your journalism, your career is over in my opinion.

Do you think it's common that a manager gets a cut of every transfer? It sure explains the existence of John Lambie and his signing of 80 players a season then selling them after a month.

"Guardian fined 25k for putting out a weakened exclusive" is pretty bang-on as far as immediate-aftermath-text-message-jokes go, by the way.

Do you think it's common that a manager gets a cut of every transfer? It sure explains the existence of John Lambie and his signing of 80 players a season then selling them after a month.

I believe Iain Holloway receives a percentage of the *profit* on Adam's transfer. I'm not sure how many players have had tenfold increases in value under John Lambie's tutelage.

I'm still sure it's less than under Big Phil and little Brazillians. How much was u-21 captain "Scheidt by name, shite by nature" again?

Nothing near the £5m reported, but still a hell of a lot + wages for a guy they'd only seen in a 5 minute video made by his agent.

iirc Scheidt went on to captain Corinthians (?) to a championship after leaving us. Maybe not as duff as he was painted in the press but totally unsuited to the SPL (see also World Cup winner Juninho who looked fucking gash).

Both players would probably blame Martin O'Neill for their lack of development/opportunities in their time there.

I didn't recall correctly - they won the cup, not the league, when he was there.

Just re-read what you said and I think the answer is "lol EPL". Once somebody looks half decent their price rockets because that's where batshit prices go to die. Xpost to G

Those inflated values are mostly paid between English teams for EPL to EPL transfers. Not too many leave the UK for bigger money than they arrived. EPL chairmen are suckers basically.

I mean seriously... I said earlier this year I'd rather have Charlie Adam than Stevie Me, yet one is "valued" 10x more than the other one. Torres is worth more than £10M after the past couple of seasons? Seen people saying £60M+ onF365.