February recruiting thread
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Claude Mpouma 2026 Offensive Tackle
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Don't worry The Simulation will get us a visit somehow in the next few months so everyone can get their hopes up only to be dashed again.
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Can’t make it up lol
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His agent did a great job for him. He entered the portal late, waited until almost every other guard was committed, visited his suitors, left everyone with the impression they were in it but another team was leading, and then went back and forth to teams, negotiating, until he extracted the most possible. Very good job.
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Got played like a fiddle like Matt in the last 2 minutes of a game.
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Different sport but a lot of similarities to CFB recruiting-plus some A+ trolling:
www.nytimes.com
Feb 1, 2025
Football is unhinged enough at the best of times.
It can turn people who consider themselves to be fairly normal, unremarkable human beings into rabid, deranged psychos. Dave from accounts might not say boo to a goose during his 9-to-5 working week but, on a Saturday afternoon, he’ll willingly jump out of his seat and scream “referee you f*****g w****r” at the top of his voice, or offer the opposition fans outside for a bare-knuckle fight.
Susan from marketing might be the shy one in the office who avoids physical situations as she’s hypersensitive to touch, but when her team score a goal she’ll manically hug every random stranger she can lay her eyes on.
The transfer window, though, adds another layer on the top of some football fans’ obsession with their team and the sport.
Throw in a pressing need for recruits and a fast-approaching deadline and, to be frank, people lose their minds.
In what other circumstances would people track a flight from Lisbon to London in case Benfica’s promising young left-back is making his way to Heathrow in time to have a medical before the window shuts?
And on what other occasion would someone voluntarily stand outdoors for hours on end on a freezing cold January evening, other than when crazy football supporters wait outside their club’s training ground in a bid to glimpse a quick look at a new signing through a blacked-out car window?
If your team really needs a new signing, there is a direct correlation between the quality and reputation of that player becoming less and less relevant as time runs out.
At the start of January, it’s all about good, solid additions to improve the team or squad for the second half of the season.
After a month of nothing, by January 31 — or in this year’s case, February 3 — literally anyone will do. As desperation levels increase, it becomes completely irrelevant whether you have heard of the player or not. Literally anyone will do. It’s just a name, a husk, an idea. Get him in now.
Here’s how things tend to unravel in the last 48 hours of a window when football fans suffer from Transfer Windowitis.
Fans rush to grab selfies with the fake player, while some are asked whether Wwirst would be a good signing.
“I don’t really know much about him but I’ve heard good things,” one says. “Arsenal needs a player like Fernando,” another adds.
And then the jackpot answer: “I’ve heard about him, he’s quite a fast player, he’s a goalscorer.”
It all reflects the berserk behemoth that football transfers have become, fuelled by social media, clickbait, 24-hour rolling TV coverage and indeed the concept of the window itself.
The whole thing is amplified by the conversation between club and supporters being entirely one way. Fans might be desperate for information, but other than mostly generic press conferences involving head coaches who increasingly have very little to do with recruitment, clubs won’t say a thing until their new signing has put pen to paper.
That silence leads to nothing but questions about what on earth the recruitment team are actually doing. Like, are they just sitting around doing nothing?
Not that it’s just fans who go a little quirky at this time of year. Witness the usually calm, serene and composed Graham Potter losing his rag (albeit still smiling his way through it because he’s such an inoffensive chap) in a press conference last week at the incessant line of transfer-based questioning.
Interviewer: “So at the moment are you struggling to identify a player that’s out there that fits in the system and is available for West Ham?”
Potter: “No, I wouldn’t say struggling, but again it’s just the complication of the window. I’ve said this so many times in this interview that it’s just… it’s a bit boring.
“I dunno how many times I can say it to you (laughs). Was you here last week? It’s like Groundhog Day, I’m saying the same thing. Can’t you think of another question?”
Interviewer: “I can give you another name…”
Potter: “Well, and I can give you the answer. (Asking the room) What answer do you think I’m gonna give him? What do you think? Shall I tell you what I’m going to say? I’ll say I’m not going to speak about anybody that’s not a West Ham player.
“I’ve said that for the last three weeks, but you keep asking me the same question. I don’t understand. But carry on, carry on.”
Interviewer: “Evan Ferguson, who you do know…”
Potter: “But he doesn’t play for West Ham, does he? So I’m not going to speak about him.”
If fans are absolutely desperate for any news, then the media are equally as frantic to be the first to give it to them.
There are plenty of examples of transfer stories being rushed out before they are ready in a bid to be the first to break an exclusive, but probably the funniest was Sky Sports reporting that Aberdeen had signed Turkish midfielder Yerdas Selzavon (for context, this is a Scottish joke, with the rough translation being “your dad is a cosmetics brand salesman”), tweeted from a fake account with an extra ‘n’ in Aberdeen.
Here’s the tweet…
And here’s Sky reporting on it…
Common sense just goes missing in the last 48 hours of a window.
So when you see West Ham fans saying that the injury-prone £40million striker they’ve signed will definitely be the answer to all their problems, or Nottingham Forest supporters say that recruiting a fifth-choice backup ‘keeper is probably a wise move, or when Arsenal rush head to the Emirates to welcome Ollie Watkins to the club before quietly heading home when they realise the breaking news was tweeted by David Ornsteen, just remember that all will back to normal again when the window shuts.
Well, as normal as football can be.
Last 48 Hours Of A Transfer Window Derangement Syndrome – a brief guide
Tim Spiers on why common sense goes missing in the final few days of a transfer window
www.nytimes.com
Last 48 Hours Of A Transfer Window Derangement Syndrome – a brief guide
By Tim SpiersFeb 1, 2025
Football is unhinged enough at the best of times.
It can turn people who consider themselves to be fairly normal, unremarkable human beings into rabid, deranged psychos. Dave from accounts might not say boo to a goose during his 9-to-5 working week but, on a Saturday afternoon, he’ll willingly jump out of his seat and scream “referee you f*****g w****r” at the top of his voice, or offer the opposition fans outside for a bare-knuckle fight.
Susan from marketing might be the shy one in the office who avoids physical situations as she’s hypersensitive to touch, but when her team score a goal she’ll manically hug every random stranger she can lay her eyes on.
The transfer window, though, adds another layer on the top of some football fans’ obsession with their team and the sport.
Throw in a pressing need for recruits and a fast-approaching deadline and, to be frank, people lose their minds.
In what other circumstances would people track a flight from Lisbon to London in case Benfica’s promising young left-back is making his way to Heathrow in time to have a medical before the window shuts?
And on what other occasion would someone voluntarily stand outdoors for hours on end on a freezing cold January evening, other than when crazy football supporters wait outside their club’s training ground in a bid to glimpse a quick look at a new signing through a blacked-out car window?
If your team really needs a new signing, there is a direct correlation between the quality and reputation of that player becoming less and less relevant as time runs out.
At the start of January, it’s all about good, solid additions to improve the team or squad for the second half of the season.
After a month of nothing, by January 31 — or in this year’s case, February 3 — literally anyone will do. As desperation levels increase, it becomes completely irrelevant whether you have heard of the player or not. Literally anyone will do. It’s just a name, a husk, an idea. Get him in now.
Here’s how things tend to unravel in the last 48 hours of a window when football fans suffer from Transfer Windowitis.
- 13-year-old lad in his bedroom in Valencia calling himself @ITKSpaniard on social media posts, “Just seen Juan Alves (other stereotypical Spanish names are available) check in at the airport heading to Manchester.”
- You have never heard of Juan Alves, but before even googling who the player is, send @ITKSpaniard’s post to all your friends who support your team, adding messages like, “Yesssss here we go,” “He’s exactly what we need right now,” and “This guy is class on Football Manager.”
- Tweet that your sporting director is “cooking”.
- Check all upcoming flights from Valencia to Manchester, sending details of the next scheduled flight to the group chat with the message, “Could be on this one.”
- Reply, “Announce Alves” to anything your club posts on social media.
- When a journalist who covers your team debunks the made-up rumour on social media, reply telling them that they don’t know anything.
- Repeat ad infinitum with any future rumours.
Fans rush to grab selfies with the fake player, while some are asked whether Wwirst would be a good signing.
“I don’t really know much about him but I’ve heard good things,” one says. “Arsenal needs a player like Fernando,” another adds.
And then the jackpot answer: “I’ve heard about him, he’s quite a fast player, he’s a goalscorer.”
It all reflects the berserk behemoth that football transfers have become, fuelled by social media, clickbait, 24-hour rolling TV coverage and indeed the concept of the window itself.
The whole thing is amplified by the conversation between club and supporters being entirely one way. Fans might be desperate for information, but other than mostly generic press conferences involving head coaches who increasingly have very little to do with recruitment, clubs won’t say a thing until their new signing has put pen to paper.
That silence leads to nothing but questions about what on earth the recruitment team are actually doing. Like, are they just sitting around doing nothing?
Not that it’s just fans who go a little quirky at this time of year. Witness the usually calm, serene and composed Graham Potter losing his rag (albeit still smiling his way through it because he’s such an inoffensive chap) in a press conference last week at the incessant line of transfer-based questioning.
Interviewer: “So at the moment are you struggling to identify a player that’s out there that fits in the system and is available for West Ham?”
Potter: “No, I wouldn’t say struggling, but again it’s just the complication of the window. I’ve said this so many times in this interview that it’s just… it’s a bit boring.
“I dunno how many times I can say it to you (laughs). Was you here last week? It’s like Groundhog Day, I’m saying the same thing. Can’t you think of another question?”
Interviewer: “I can give you another name…”
Potter: “Well, and I can give you the answer. (Asking the room) What answer do you think I’m gonna give him? What do you think? Shall I tell you what I’m going to say? I’ll say I’m not going to speak about anybody that’s not a West Ham player.
“I’ve said that for the last three weeks, but you keep asking me the same question. I don’t understand. But carry on, carry on.”
Interviewer: “Evan Ferguson, who you do know…”
Potter: “But he doesn’t play for West Ham, does he? So I’m not going to speak about him.”
If fans are absolutely desperate for any news, then the media are equally as frantic to be the first to give it to them.
There are plenty of examples of transfer stories being rushed out before they are ready in a bid to be the first to break an exclusive, but probably the funniest was Sky Sports reporting that Aberdeen had signed Turkish midfielder Yerdas Selzavon (for context, this is a Scottish joke, with the rough translation being “your dad is a cosmetics brand salesman”), tweeted from a fake account with an extra ‘n’ in Aberdeen.
Here’s the tweet…
And here’s Sky reporting on it…
Common sense just goes missing in the last 48 hours of a window.
So when you see West Ham fans saying that the injury-prone £40million striker they’ve signed will definitely be the answer to all their problems, or Nottingham Forest supporters say that recruiting a fifth-choice backup ‘keeper is probably a wise move, or when Arsenal rush head to the Emirates to welcome Ollie Watkins to the club before quietly heading home when they realise the breaking news was tweeted by David Ornsteen, just remember that all will back to normal again when the window shuts.
Well, as normal as football can be.
Flabio
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Only if he needs NU to help boost his NIL negotiation. 😂
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I know this kid is 2027 but he should just commit already and get it over with.
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