Offer made for Caulker

[hal9thou]

Maybe he feels his lack of pace

and that is a real concern for us imo because we have zero pace on the park and especially at the back. It just means sat deep and hoping for the best.

This guy is not a Koeman or Passarella, the best CBs can play anywhere. He is a reasonable punt but we have to learn lessons about going over the top.

[hal9thou]

They're really not.

Bookies are terrified of transfer odds as there are far too many people with inside info that could potentially take them to the cleaners. The odds will change (and I've watched them change) if someone bets £20 on a player moving if that bookie is near a clubs training ground or stadium

Possibly the most naive post I've read on here. Poachers always turn gamekeeper. You can earn more feeding the intelligence than punting.


Plus, if a £20 punt changes the odds you are looking at a very very small outfit.

I've worked on spreads and exchanges and in the media, and betting sources are always the most reliable. Money talks.

[rickyranger]

really hope caulker signs but if everton are in fro him with a serious offer cant see anything else than him moving there. Wouldnt mind dawson think hes a good player just hope injury wise he's sorted himself out.

Everton were in for him but wouldn't meet his wage demands so you can forget them, if there is a rival it's Palace as I said before might just be waiting to announce Ferdinand and Caulker together, although Palace do appear interested.

[brightonr]

Possibly the most naive post I've read on here. Poachers always turn gamekeeper. You can earn more feeding the intelligence than punting.


Plus, if a £20 punt changes the odds you are looking at a very very small outfit.

I've worked on spreads and exchanges and in the media, and betting sources are always the most reliable. Money talks.

If this is the case, then can you explain how odds of 1/7 were ever offered and have gone out to almost evens?

Would be interested to know as I wouldn't take odds of 1/7 on a player signing for anybody unless I saw him walking into the ground getting his pen out.

[Jimmy Floyd Rabbit]

Would be interested to know as I wouldn't take odds of 1/7 on a player signing for anybody unless I saw him walking into the ground getting his pen!s out.

[brightonr]

Give you 20/1 on that happening.

[Johnny Tightlips]

Possibly the most naive post I've read on here. Poachers always turn gamekeeper. You can earn more feeding the intelligence than punting.


Plus, if a £20 punt changes the odds you are looking at a very very small outfit.

I've worked on spreads and exchanges and in the media, and betting sources are always the most reliable. Money talks.

Seen it with my own eyes and having worked at Blue Sq and MGM in the past, privvy to much of how these things work. A good, embedded journo will have far far better sources and information than any bookmaker. More than anything else, when it comes to betting on transfers, there's a huge amount of guess work and "follow my leader" taking place in the betting community. Naive to think otherwise. Whether a less well intentioned journo (and I've known a few) then takes that to BD or VC etc is another matter entirely but if that was the case, in the illustration you use, you just wouldn't see the betting move in the way it clearly has for Caulker and does for every transfer and managerial change. The intelligence in the betting community in these things is so low level and under so much scrutiny, that it barely exists. Some with conspiracy theories may claim otherwise but the reality is, it's such a low volume market for the bookies given the overall football betting industry, the likes of Blue Sq, Sky Bet, Bet 365 etc., there's nothing in it for them to warrant building up a huge intelligence dossier.

[Johnny Tightlips]

If this is the case, then can you explain how odds of 1/7 were ever offered and have gone out to almost evens?

Would be interested to know as I wouldn't take odds of 1/7 on a player signing for anybody unless I saw him walking into the ground getting his pen out.

Exactly

[CroydonCaptainJack]

If he choses palace over us then he really is a divvy. Everything about that club is proper toilet, getting there is the worst, and once you are there what a shitehole. Loftus road is fairly easy to get to from the country mansion and london is ten minutes away?
Both clubs are prem strugglers and both will offer the same dough, so if he choses them then they are welcome to him.

Although I hope you are right Kevin, that is a bit harsh. Some of the nicest places in the country to live are not far from here and the links to London are a piece of cake. Loads of footballers live in Purley, Chipstead, Woldingham etc

[Kevin Mcleod]

Although I hope you are right Kevin, that is a bit harsh. Some of the nicest places in the country to live are not far from here and the links to London are a piece of cake. Loads of footballers live in Purley, Chipstead, Woldingham etc

Yeah maybe was a bit harsh jack, there is some nice places not too far away for millionaires to live......but getting to and from the ground is enough of a reason to chose us imo.

[CroydonCaptainJack]

Yeah maybe was a bit harsh jack, there is some nice places not too far away for millionaires to live......but getting to and from the ground is enough of a reason to chose us imo.

We are the more glamorous of the two clubs I feel. I am just a bit concerned that HR didn't use to play him much.

[maidstone_hoop]

Although I hope you are right Kevin, that is a bit harsh. Some of the nicest places in the country to live are not far from here and the links to London are a piece of cake. Loads of footballers live in Purley, Chipstead, Woldingham etc

In all fairness mate, saying croydon is a nice place to live is like saying chatham is a nice place to live its a shiteeee hole - but one you love as its your area which is understandable....the only footballers living round there will be playing for mitcham or dulwich.. ;)

[Johnny Tightlips]

Although I hope you are right Kevin, that is a bit harsh. Some of the nicest places in the country to live are not far from here and the links to London are a piece of cake. Loads of footballers live in Purley, Chipstead, Woldingham etc

Palace's training ground is in Beckenham though isn't it? Woldingham to Beckenham would be an utter ******* of a journey

[maidstone_hoop]

Just to add to that ccjack i feel comfortable saying that as I live in a bigger **** hole called sittingbourne at present

[maidstone_hoop]

Palace's training ground is in Beckenham though isn't it? Woldingham to Beckenham would be an utter ******* of a journey

Isn't it milwalls that is in beckenham?