Quality Journalism

[JagSquared]

a thing of the past

 

Masal Bugduv – the 16-year-old Moldovan prodigy who doesn't exist | Sport | guardian.co.uk

 

or remember this gem from a few years back

 

Paper links Liverpool to player who doesn't exist - Media, News - The Independent

 

:whistle:

[The Tott]

Im convinced agents of players "leak" to the press info involving Liverpools "interest" in their clients to increase their transfer value (ie to increase their incomes)

 

The amount of players we've been linked in the past few years compared to our rivals with is incredibly insane. Half the utd team have been linked with us before: Vidic,Evra,O'shea,Hargreaves,Carrick,berbatov,ronaldo have all been linked with a transfer to liverpool at one stage of their respective careers.

 

Just a theory of mine im convinced is true.

[redheart]

Actually the links with Hargreaves, Carrick, Berbatove and Ronaldo were true

[King Emlyn]

Actually the links with Hargreaves, Carrick, Berbatove and Ronaldo were true

And Vidic

[Paulie Dangerously]

Remember when a premiership team was outed as being interested in a Harchester United player...from Dream Team. I'm sure it wasn't April Fools either

 

This is not the first time UK papers have latched onto a story like this. About eight years ago - before the advent of the transfer window - the Liverpool Echo ran an April joke piece about Houllier being linked with a former French international called Didier Baptiste.

 

Baptiste was a fictional player who had been linked with a move to Harchester United in Sky One’s (awful) soap opera Dream Team. Baptiste ended up moving to HU for £5 million but not before a number of the tabloids had printed the news of Liverpool’s move for the player. Some papers, presumably not wishing to print a retraction, actually had the audacity to claim that it was Houllier (a former French international manager) who had failed to check his facts and had attempted to sign Baptiste.

[Dicko]

Juan Arango.

A rumour started deliberately by a few lads on RAOTL on a Sunday, the following Thursday it was in the Times & Independent. And by the weekend it was commented on in Sky's Spanish League coverage.

 

Piece of piss.

[Major Tom]

Juan Arango.

A rumour started deliberately by a few lads on RAOTL on a Sunday, the following Thursday it was in the Times & Independent. And by the weekend it was commented on in Sky's Spanish League coverage.

 

Piece of piss.

 

Juan Arango actually exists and plays in Spain. Presumably why it was a piece of piss..

 

edit...I see your point now.

[Faustus]

We should start one on here to see if we can get it into the pages of a newspaper.

[Joe Le Taxi]

We should start one on here to see if we can get it into the pages of a newspaper.

 

Didn't that happen with Yassine Chikhaoui?

[liverpoolsno9]

We should start one on here to see if we can get it into the pages of a newspaper.

 

 

 

I just seen Tevez goin into a sports shop in Kirkby town centre and buying Liverpool tops for his kids, i said hello and asked him what he was doing here and he said he`d just been to the academy.

[Skidfingers McGonical]

Pity we never got the Jimmy Bullard one last summer into the press, that was ace that one.

 

Proper GF takeover that.

[INTORRESTING]

didnt houllier try and buy some one from dream team?

[AmerScouse]

quality journalism coupled with the age of the internet = oxymoron?

[Bubble]

In fairness, Didier Baptiste was ace for Harchester United.

[Paulie Dangerously]

In fairness, Didier Baptiste was ace for Harchester United.

 

He's French,

He's flash,

He took a wad of Cash

Didier Baptiste

 

Didn't he take a bribe and missed a penno on purpose but someone slammed it in on the last game of the season? They may have used the Fowler/McAteer footage from years ago for it

[AngryOfTuebrook]

Clubcall followed up their Didier Baptiste "scoop" (i.e. shovel full of dog poo) with the news that the Reds were about to sign Luis Enrique.

 

Decent player. And he exists. So far so good.

 

Their evidence was that he'd been spotted in the crowd at a reserves match.

 

Only problem is - it wasn't Luis Enrique, it was Louis Emerick.

 

Combative Asturian midfielder. ............................... Scouse pizza shop owner.

 

Easy enough mistake, I suppose.