RedSpoons
First Team Squad
Well at least he’ll hopefully get a full week training pre-Everton then.
Sounds like we’ll be working with the shite bench again Sunday then.
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Emmanuel Bonaventure Dennis
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Sounds like we’ll be working with the shite bench again Sunday then.
Gyros Peter
Sauce salad?
Think his medical was this afternoon, so unlikely in this case I'd say.
Gyros Peter
Sauce salad?
He's also a bit bonkers, so I'm waiting fir the proper announcement before getting really excited and saying done. What if the signing on table is the wrong height for example?
Notcher
Stuart Pearce
It's possible the paperwork could have been registered before noon with "subject to medical"
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Rzar
Bob McKinlay
Exactly, at Premier League level that’s brilliant.
BryanRoy22
Ian Bowyer
Hope so. I'd love to see him come off the bench against West Ham.
Rzar
Bob McKinlay
Yes, as long as the paperwork is in
The effort that the club have put into the announcement videos this season wouldn’t be Suprised if there was a lengthy delay
RedSpoons
First Team Squad
Same, that sounds alright to me. I’m hoping that is a pattern amongst impactful Prem players so Johnson and Lingard tear the league a new one on Sunday despite a quiet week 1
Ashley
Steve Chettle
Yes. There seems to be a longer delay between a deal reportedly being done and the official announcement. Gone are the days of a plain article and photo on the website, the club are embracing social media and the hype it can generate by putting more time and effort into a player's unveiling.
BryanRoy22
Ian Bowyer
Friend of mine said the same.
He got a job at Sky Sports as a graphic designer and said he was sat on his arse the whole day doing nothing (my friend, that is)
He told me a lot of what goes on behind the scenes is so casual and people don't talk to each other. They're all either shy or arrogant, so it equates to a stand-offish type of atmosphere.
What you see on screen is narrowed down to a minority who are trying to make things happen.
Ashley
Steve Chettle
Pretty good piece about Dennis from a few weeks ago here:
JohnnyCarey
Viv Anderson
This is another tremendous bit of business by the M&Ms (Murphy + Marinakis x 2). To get a player who is still young but has shown that he can perform in the PL for what seems like a very modest upfront fee is deeply impressive.
I get the feeling that he could be this season's Djed Spence -- a player who is undervalued because of a bad reputation for being mardy but who will blossom under Steve Cooper's brilliant man management.
I get the feeling that he could be this season's Djed Spence -- a player who is undervalued because of a bad reputation for being mardy but who will blossom under Steve Cooper's brilliant man management.
Quntib Hollox
Jack Armstrong
I prefer the £12.5M+£7.5M in add ons!
HBB
Jack Burkitt
Its a weird environment - I was on the sports desk of Sky News not on Sky Sports News though I was hired by Andy Cairns before he went on to start Sky Sports News, they were in the studios next to us and we shared alot of interviews and stuff with them. It was a weird place but then newsrooms are and 24 hours news rooms even more so - sounds like your mate was not on the news side of stuff so much as there there's a constant call for new stills, graphics, score updates etc its a constant churn. The graphics team we had would be 3-4 people at the same time.
On the other side you have the guys who work on the shows and they did a huge amount of f*** all - I used to have to go over to the production areas for Sky Sports live football and it was awful, proper lads club with Keyes and Gray the masters of all they surveyed. They treated us like shit and you'd have some hard working producers putting together the running order and the timings and all the clips while the "talent" did f*** all but that's the way TV is/was. They'd take all week to do those flashy little pieces and behind the scenes packages - while I'd be knocking out 20 or 30 videos a week on the news side.
On Sky News I'd be producing an hourly 5-7 min bulletin as part of a 12 hour shift (working a 9 day fortnight including every weekend) with back half hour updates covering live scores and breaking stories, writing and rewriting most of the copy and keeping it fresh, running in tapes to play live in to bulletins, sometimes producing it in the gallery with the director. It'd be expected to write and voice at least two news packages during my shift as well as producing the bulletins. If there was a live game I'd also have to do the bulletins with live scores and clips of the goals or highlights and write and voice a 1:30 report of the game as soon as it'd finished and make sure we recorded the 11:30 bulletin (if we were lucky) most likely it'd be the 12:30 so that'd go out overnight and then do a recut and revoice of the package for the morning including grabs from the post match interviews and make sure the morning producer (who'd be in at 4:30 am) had a 5 minute morning bulletin ready to go at 6:20 am (though they would be looking for new stories that had broken overnight). All the time of course you'd be fielding calls from the reporters in the field who'd be sending in new pieces for the bulletins and keeping an eye on the wires for breaking stories to keep your bulletin fresh, You wouldn't run a package more than 4-5 time maximum so you're always have to cut and recut.
And then at the weekend if you were on earlies (4:30am till 14:30pm) we'd have to do all that and the bulletins and produce a half-hour edition of Sportsline with goals, clips and guests and you had to produce from the gallery where you had to change the running order as things went over or under or fill an extra 15 minutes if Alan Mullery hadn't shown that morning (to be fair he was great).... and then still do another 5 hours or so after that.... and people wonder why I got out of "glamorous" live TV news....
Still miss it sometimes ...
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BryanRoy22
Ian Bowyer
Not sure how you can't be anything but excited about this.
Souvik
First Team Squad
More than adequate when you consider the 7.5 of add-ons
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Quntib Hollox
Jack Armstrong
Sounds like the kind of job most of us would die for!
I just read the Cooper article in the Post about the importance of the meeting with Lingard, about how critical it is between player and coach to trust each other and the relationship etc.
I don't think we'd signing Dennis if Cooper hadn't met him and /or didn't want him at the club.
I don't think we'd signing Dennis if Cooper hadn't met him and /or didn't want him at the club.
£20m a modest up front fee?!
Watford bought him for £3.5m a year ago.
It might end up being money well spent, but let's not kid ourselves that this is anything other than a lot of money.
Rzar
Bob McKinlay
It's between £12.5m-£15m with add-ons to take it to £20m whichever publication you chose to believe, not 20 upfront.
If Watford stayed up you would be paying much more than that. Same with Cornet who went for similar & had a similar impact.
If Watford stayed up you would be paying much more than that. Same with Cornet who went for similar & had a similar impact.
HBB
Jack Burkitt
LOL like I say I still miss it sometimes - I was a producer most of the time but would often be sent out to do reports I met just about every famous sportsperson of the era all the England boys Becks, Gazza, Psycho, Shearer (I was producing when we took the live feed of him being presented to the Geordie faithful - my then presenter Jon Desborough asked him about the money and he replied about being a sheet metal workers son) etc down at Bisham Abbey, D'allaglio, Johnno, Rob Andrew, Hastings, Carling and SA Captain Francois Pienaar in the Rugby. Monty, Woosnam, Henman, Rudeski, Torvil and Dean, Ferguson, Denise Lewis, Colin Jackson, Steve Cram, Michael Collins, Nigel Benn, the fantastic Chris Eubank and the very dull Joe Calzaghe, Lennox Lewis, even Muhammed Ali and Don King (that was surreal), Jackie Stewart, Damon Hill (we did the first live with him on the phone when he won his first title in Japan - again that was because Desborough had great contacts). The list is almost endless. We used to get Neil Webb in sometimes on Sportsline, he was a good lad. I remember asking him about his time at Forest and he was really open about how it'd all turned to shit at Utd.
But the hours and lack of a social life just killed all my passion in the end .... the day I knew I was over it was one night in 1998 when I was hoping to record the 11:30 bulletin to run overnight after a very long day when the phone rang, it was Harry Harris (then of the Mirror I think it was) anyway he owed us a favour and he was ringing from La Manga and the England Pre France '98 World Cup training camp and he'd just found out that Hoddle was not taking Gazza to the World Cup in France .... Obviously a massive story and normally you'd kick into high gear to get the story on air and give it the works so I'd be straight on the gallery to get the presenters to do a breaking news headline, order a gazza still from graphics, write a quick breaking new NIB for while ordering archive footage from the library of England training, Gazza goals, gazza and Hoddle, controversial gazza footage cut a headline VT and what we called and LVO for the back half hour and then do a quick package for overnight and one for the morning ... instead of the usual adrenaline from a big breaking news story all I could actually think was "f*** I was going to go home in 10 minutes" .... of course I did all the VT and the package etc but I knew after that I'd just worked myself in the ground ... I left in 2001.
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Calvin Plummer
Viv Anderson
Sure but by the same token if their comments are all sour grapes and actually he works hard, has a great attitude, pace, goals, assists etc why has nobody else been interested at what is a relatively cheap price?