There's plenty of idle gossip in Harry's Bar and the Printworks. I've heard some belters over the years.

Hopefully not enquiring about any of our players?

Although losing/selling our best players is not something that any of us want, surely, it's a massive compliment to all involved, that some of our players are turning heads.

Barca will get enquiries for Messi every other day and it's down to the club as to how we deal any enquiries for our players.

Having any numbers made public is a different problem and MC sounds like he might be dealing with this issue.

Hence me seeking clatification.

So the guys nickname is Freak then? And what did Freak reply?

There's the simple reality of it, a bit of everyday gossip and banter taken out of context, it is what it is, an unfounded rumours which at some stage in our support of the club we've all been guilty of believing, why the need for some people to seriously get their nickers in a twist and post 5 or 6 posts lecturing on the morals of the OP.s post is beyond me.

Who’s the source then?

I would hope that the club are now in a more comfortable financial position where we don't HAVE to listen to any offers should they come in. Hopefully, gone are the days of simply accepting any cash offer that comes in for a player, regardless of their importance to the team.



Thanks must go to MC and CB for getting the financial state of the club under some control.

Strangely enough, I’ve lost more then one sponsor over the last 4 years on the back of ‘unfounded rumours’ so not quite as harmless as it might seem



Hence why it drives me mad

I can fully understand your frustration in that case, my post was not aimed at you personally, I simply used part of your post to illustrate how easy it is to set these rumours going, and also in the case of other posters who choose to sit on the moral high ground on a regular basis who have chosen this thread to a needless challenge on the OP.



PS. Apologies If you are not one of the posters who take take the moral high ground at every opportunity as I don't want to be accused of discrimination by some.

Coming from you that's rich, my irony meter has broken big style - you owe me a fiver. Seriously, read some of your own posts before taking the moral high ground, which incidentally is exactly what you've just done

Does anyone remember when the rumour mill was nothing more pernicious than who had been spotted doing donuts in the Superbowl carpark? I preferred that - much less harmful.



I guess there's a lesson in this - if you know someone who works at the club and they share confidential info with which you then repeat, a) you are risking their job and b) you are potentially damaging the club; the conclusion, I would've thought, is self evident?