Anyone else fed up with transfer stories?
Every club in the Premier League has more than likely been linked to more players than they could field in an entire season since the end of May.
Perhaps some of them are legitimate, but for every one of those there are another fifteen from …
- Thirteen year old ‘lads’ running an ‘in the know’ Twitter account.
- Fan sites re-reporting a report about a report that a red top national newspaper thinks your club is linked to about half the worlds population.
- Sports journalists looking for something to write about on a slow news day.
- Football agents touting their players as available when all they really want is a new improved contract on top of the new improved deal they signed just four months ago.
Unlike me of course, I do this little bit of writing as a hobby because I enjoy it and the game which I talk about.
All of the above (apart from stupid children creating transfer story Twitter accounts) have a common denominator. Money.
This is the game now, and the media which funds and runs alongside it. You have all probably at some point clicked on those enticing links with a really interesting headline only to be taken to a two paragraph piece designed to draw people in for advertisers.
It is all about the money, to quote a really rubbish pop song. It is, for me anyway, making the game less and less enjoyable. By reading these links not only would you be making someone who has no interest in bringing you news that little bit wealthier, but you are simply wasting your time.
Then not only could you be wasting your time, you could possibly go on to waste others time by taking to message boards and social media to complain that your particular club is not signing any of the players they are ‘reportedly’ linked with.
See the irony?
They were almost certainly never interested in the player in the first place. It would be the equivalent of being upset with a company for not offering you a job that you have never applied for.
I would much rather spend my summer doing something interesting. Watching paint dry springs to mind.
Take my word for it, do not start imagining any player in your teams kit until you actually see them in it.
Football clubs do everything they can to keep news of players signing for their club out of the news. They do not want people reading about it until it is done for fairly obvious reasons. Remember that the next time Palace (or whoever you support) are linked with Cristiano Ronaldo’s long lost cousin, who apparently has twice as much talent.
Anyway, this transfer chatter is almost as tiresome as an Aston Villa fan talking about their former glories so I am going to finish up.
Embrace your club. Be pleased with new signings. Look forward to the new season but please stop feeding the media monster and do not believe everything you read. Not even this!
