Breaking News Joe Gubbins has joined SUFC on loan until the end of the season

[HUMBLEPIE]

Oh well Gubbins turn.

 

[nick12]

That's more like it ?

 

[LCBB72]

If he does well for the rest if this season, what are the chances of getting him back for next season? If we want an additional defender.

He is valued at £45.000

 

[Tommy2holes]

I wonder if this one is a view to a permanent deal?

 

[bluesfansince1952]

I wonder if this one is a view to a permanent deal?

My thoughts exactly.
Does anyone know where he fits in the QPR food chain?

 

[londonblue]

He is valued at £45.000

Why 3 decimal places?

 

[Ramsdenblue]

He is valued at £45.000

£45.000 well have 6 of them at that price.

 

[OldBlueLady]

CP got that right.

He can only go on what his sources tell him, no need to mock him.

 

[Chris Powell's mate]

But apparently we weren't interested in signing him ??

Right now, I'd be sorely ticked off if I were Chris Phillips.
Am assuming his relationship with the club is close, and for him to tweet there 'is no truth whatsoever' in Gubbins' imminent arrival, makes me wonder.
You don't really want to do that to the local man.

 

[Chris Powell's mate]

CP got that right.

As for the post above.
Poor of the club to lead him down a blind alley.

 

[Mad Cyril]

He can only go on what his sources tell him, no need to mock him.

Chris Phillips' journalistic spider sense should have started tingling when the club failed to 'insist' there was no truth in the Joe Gubbins rumour....

 

[Chris Powell's mate]

Chris Phillips' journalistic spider sense should have started tingling when the club did not 'insist' there was no truth in the Joe Gubbins rumour....

Believe me, and I know, CP will make a daily call to Kev and get the latest.
Sometimes, a 'deal' will be done when the journo holds back at the request of the club. Maybe, it's worried someone else will nip and pinch the player.

In which case, CP would write 'nothing doing at the moment.'
That's how it works.

For CP to write 'no truth' in rumour means he was lied to - it's as simple as that.
If the club had prevaricated, then CP would probably have gone to the QPR end and got more info.
As said, if that had been me, I would be seething.

 

[FarmdogSUFC]

Almost as if he was told to keep quiet about it

 

[Mad Cyril]

Believe me, and I know, CP will make a daily call to Kev and get the latest.
Sometimes, a 'deal' will be done when the journo holds back at the request of the club. Maybe, it's worried someone else will nip and pinch the player.

In which case, CP would write 'nothing doing at the moment.'
That's how it works.

For CP to write 'no truth' in rumour means he was lied to - it's as simple as that.
If the club had prevaricated, then CP would probably have gone to the QPR end and got more info.
As said, if that had been me, I would be seething.

Maybe Joe Gubbins heard the rumour and forced the move?

 

[southendkid]

Believe me, and I know, CP will make a daily call to Kev and get the latest.
Sometimes, a 'deal' will be done when the journo holds back at the request of the club. Maybe, it's worried someone else will nip and pinch the player.

In which case, CP would write 'nothing doing at the moment.'

If everyone knows "nothing doing at the moment" means "we're interested" then it's a pretty worthless code if you're trying to hide your interest in a player.

 

[Chris Powell's mate]

If everyone knows "nothing doing at the moment" means "we're interested" then it's a pretty worthless code if you're trying to hide your interest in a player.

Sort of...
But that's the world of compromise.
I'm pretty sure CP would have asked a direct question. As said, you have to work out a deal whereby all parties are OK with what is said.
An outright lie doesn't do the club any favours.

 

[Chris Powell's mate]

Maybe Joe Gubbins heard the rumour and forced the move?

It doesn't work like that.
Can you imagine players trying to 'force' moves? This isn't someone with enough clout to push Mark Warburton into a corner.
Occasionally, you get a top player making it plain he no longer wants to play for his club, eg Lukaku before Christmas.
Even then, he had to rein back when Chelsea told him what's what.

 

[Chris Powell's mate]

Almost as if he was told to keep quiet about it

Agreed.
So therefore, the journo doesn't respond to questions about the player.

He doesn't write 'no truth whatsoever'. After all, he now looks either a fool or someone out of the loop.
That sort of statement just embarrasses the local reporter who has to work with a club on a daily basis.

 

[southendkid]

Sort of...
But that's the world of compromise.
I'm pretty sure CP would have asked a direct question. As said, you have to work out a deal whereby all parties are OK with what is said.
An outright lie doesn't do the club any favours.

This probably sounds a bit disrespectful to CP but he has no right to know about our transfer targets if we don't want him to. If he isn't able to deal with the fact that we'll occasionally lie to him about our targets as a result (and I've not actually seen any evidence it bothers him, you're putting words into his mouth from what I can tell) then he probably shouldn't be in this job.

 

[RHB]

As for the post above.
Poor of the club to lead him down a blind alley.

You never know, he may have asked Stan. We have already been told that sometimes Stan misses out on player news.