Summer 2017 Transfer Thread

[magicrat]

Caulker should be grateful he hasn't had to support Liverpool Football club during all this time,

He wouldn't be around to tell the tale if he had that cross to bear,

 

You got to feel for the lad when he's living in one of the properties he could be renting out and punishing himself by using public transport .  If it sounds hard hearted then tough, There are hundreds of thousands if people dealing with mental illness in this country and the vast majority cant get a fraction of the resources they need to cope, Many are homeless living in shop doorways, This lad has had millions in wages and could have sought the best help available, 

 

All that aside I hope he sorts himself out but don't come looking for sympathy when there are so many worse off, 

[Babb'sBurstNad]

The cynic in me thinks it's timed well to get a new club, but ultimately he's had some real issues, that interview's pretty frank and is the kind of thing that should help others no matter the motives behind it. Mental health problems can be a blight on anyone, regardless of income and status.

 

Fair play to him for getting himself back on track, hopefully he gets a new club soon.

[Paco]

Robertson is likely to leave Hull and has admitted he wants to take time in order to choose the best option for his career.

 

West Brom, Watford, Newcastle and Burnley are all credited with an interest by the Hull Daily Mail.

[VERBAL DIARRHEA]

If we get Keita and Van we can serve some up a tasty defeat.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PUNishment deserved .

[G Richards]

Interesting article about Caulker and helps explain a lot. I have sympathy for him as when that sort of stuff takes a hold of your life, it is no respecter of status or earnings, and you get on a slippery slope. Hopefully he comes right through it, and it sounds like he's in a better way.

 

It explains the football side of it too, as when he came to prominence he looked a smashing player and I couldn't work out what was wrong with him when he dropped off. I just assumed he had been injured and hadn't managed to find his way back yet.

 

Good luck to the fella anyway.

[Jay86]

When Caulker was at Swansea I worked with a load of boys from Swansea and they said at the time that he was always in the Casino getting into trouble, he owed a lot out.

 

Tottenham didn't want him back despite him looking amazing in Swansea's promotion season, Tottenham knew what he was like so decided he wasn't worth the risk, he went onto Cardiff and then heard the same rumours from there aswell. It's sad that despite all the money in the world something's still missing in your life that you feel the need to go down that road, it's all the downtime players get.

 

A very similar thing happened to one of my best mates, he was at Cardiff from the age of 12, got into the first team squad (when Robbie and Hasslebaink was there) had a pay rise and was finished with work everyday about 12ish, so he said all the youngsters and players without families would all end up in the bookies all afternoon, when he got released at 20 after a few bad injuries he was a mess and gambled all his money away and got into debt. I don't think enough is done for 16/17/18 year olds who are either given a huge pay rise or are released, I reckon this must happen to thousands of players up and down the country. Despite him being a Manc he had nothing but good things to say about Robbie Fowler, he was his gym partner for a while because they were both injured and he said after all he'd achieved in his career he had the smallest ego and had time for everyone when you had no mark League 1 players who thought they were the bollocks.

[Dave D]

Off all addictions gambling is the one Ive never quite understood. A lot of footballers seem to suffer with it. I find it really strange.Not doubting its destructiveness and difficulty, just seems an odd one to me.    

[Lee909]

To be honest it seems a British thing. You dont seem to here of too many Italians and Spanish kids wasting away hours as a betting shop

[Guest]

Off all addictions gambling is the one Ive never quite understood. A lot of footballers seem to suffer with it. I find it really strange.Not doubting its destructiveness and difficulty, just seems an odd one to me.    

I think it's much to do with the buzz of getting the win, especially when it seems against the odds. 

 

We could do with a few players like that in our team,

[jimmycase]

Has the window closed yet?

[LFC 6 Times]

Im calling bullshit on that interview, no footballer knows the word "dissuades,"

[Megadrive Man]

They don't have bookmakers in Spain do they?

 

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[El Rojo]

They don't have bookmakers in Spain do they?

 

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If the bookmaker's name was Paddyio Powero they'd all be gambling.

[Megadrive Man]

Gambling is often down to boredom.

 

Why did we even sign Caulker? It was such an odd transfer?

[El Dangerous]

It was a bit of a gamble that's for sure. Maybe Klopp was bored.

[Bjornebye]

Haha. Just waiting for Jurgen to get back from holidays to translate the Southampton apology into German.

Guten Fuck off

[sir roger]

We still own Adam Bogdan?!

 

Kinnell!

 

No , but we have let him stay doing his rehab at Melwood as he had a bad one.

[m0e]

Off all addictions gambling is the one Ive never quite understood. A lot of footballers seem to suffer with it. I find it really strange.Not doubting its destructiveness and difficulty, just seems an odd one to me.

I consult for a gambling charity.

 

It's always about a big win that they get before becoming addicted.

 

That experience creates an emotion attachment to the memory of winning and your brain looks to recreate that experience whenever it possibly can.

 

Studies in neuroscience now show that it's chemically addictive in the same way as alcohol or drugs, and... Wait for it...

 

Social media!

[magicrat]

Unbelievable that booze and tobacco ads are banned yet we have cunts selling us the "Ladbrokes Life" and that fat cockneed cunt telling us "get on it now",  Paying the right people no doubt,

[Rick Sanchez C-137]

I'd like to get on his face wearing breeze blocks on me feet

[Arl arse]

[The Acolyte]

Yep. Hopefully Mane's absence was a one-off but the other three are injury prone by any definition (one more so than the others).

You will find they will be less injury prone when they don't play when carrying knocks. Having more quality in the squad avoids this. Strange, Jim Brown mentions this in Any Given Sunday "guys are now fit all year round but their bodies are made of China". A different sport but I think it applies here.

[Dave D]

I consult for a gambling charity.

 

It's always about a big win that they get before becoming addicted.

 

That experience creates an emotion attachment to the memory of winning and your brain looks to recreate that experience whenever it possibly can.

 

Studies in neuroscience now show that it's chemically addictive in the same way as alcohol or drugs, and... Wait for it...

 

Social media!

 

I understand the thrill for someone to win who isn't already mega rich. Its when people who are rolling in cash get addicted to gambling. Takes the "gamble" out of it to an extent.

 

Its clearly a real problem. I read Keith Gillespies book (ex Unted, Newcastle-bit of a weird choice I know) He lost the lot. Would bet on absolutely everything and anything.

 

As you say, its the buzz/rush of the win I guess.

[setreal]

Starting 11 of the most expensive transfers as of June 30th:

 

[m0e]

I understand the thrill for someone to win who isn't already mega rich. Its when people who are rolling in cash get addicted to gambling. Takes the "gamble" out of it to an extent.

 

Its clearly a real problem. I read Keith Gillespies book (ex Unted, Newcastle-bit of a weird choice I know) He lost the lot. Would bet on absolutely everything and anything.

 

As you say, its the buzz/rush of the win I guess.

The win has nothing to do with the money you make. It's the rush of the moment, as you alluded to.

 

It's the same for drugs and alcohol. Your brain becomes obsessed with the apparent need for cortisol and adrenaline. It doesn't take notice of time, meaning the money you've earned or saved (past) and where you may end up (future) doesn't come into it.

 

Memories are funny things. They are experiences which combine emotional charges with sensory based evidence. They then re-presented themselves brought the emotional charge. The are not recalled, as such; more reconstructed.

 

You can't really tell what's real and what isn't and your 'instinct' is to keep trying to recreate that experience by doing what your senses picked up on: where you were, what you saw, what you did, etc

 

It's why we often forget about the negative stuff that happened in a relationship for example, and become obsessed again with the 'joy' that was created, even of it was just that one time.

 

This is becoming even more serious now with online gaming and pornography.

 

The psychologist, David Greenfield, had done some great work on this.

 

http://virtual-addiction.com