Ashley Posted 16 August 2020 Share Posted 16 August 2020 (edited) @Qwerty used to be decent didnt he/she? Edited 16 August 2020 by Ashley 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aleksz Posted 16 August 2020 Share Posted 16 August 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, jeffschlupp said: Ive written this up. For context all of the Leicester/Midlands related journos are named first, the rest are national or international. Most of them have offered info about us before. Official Tier: lcfc.com / @LCFC Tier 1 (Top reliability): John Percy (Telegraph) / David Ornstein (Athletic) / Mohamed Bouhafsi (RMC, France) / Fabrizio Romano (Sky Italia) / Christian Falk (Bild, Germany) / Henry Winter (Times) / Kristof Terreur (HLN, Belgium) / BBC Sport / Sam Wallace (Telegraph) / Jonathan Northcroft (Times) Tier 2 (Reliable): Rob Tanner (Athletic) / Rob Dorsett (Sky) / James Nursey (Mirror) / Laurie Whitwell (Athletic) / Nick Mashiter (PA) / Stuart James (Athletic) / Dominic King (Mail) / Matt Law (Telegraph) / James Ducker (Telegraph) / Geoff Peters / Maher Mezahi (Algeria) / Rafa Honigstein (German football) / Bild / RMC / Kicker / De Telegraaf Tier 3 (Decent): Jordan Blackwell (Mercury) / Alan Nixon (Sun) / Gianluca Di Marzio / Mike McGrath (Telegraph) / Adrian Kajumba (Mail) / James Sharpe (Mail) / Duncan Castles (Portuguese players/clubs only) / The Times / The Guardian Tier 4 (Mostly nonsense): Ian Stringer (Radio Leicester) / Sky Sports News (except Dorsett) / ESPN / Simon Jones (Mail) / Dean Jones (BR) / TalkSport / Kaveh Solhekol Tier 5 (shite): LCFC HQ / Sean From Enderby / IndyKaila / most FoxesTalk ITKs / Express / Sun (except Nixon) / Metro / HITC / Nicolo Schira (Italy) Good aggregators of foreign sources: Sport Witness (translation) / GFFN (France) Not sure if it's any help and whether it needs adding to, but I think it's a pretty accurate summary of who to trust. Alan Nixon for The S*n would definitely deserve to be a lot higher. Was the first journo to get to Mahrez to Man City, Maddison to us and Rodgers to us. People turn their nose up at him because of who he works for but he knows his stuff. You’re also definitely flattering Dorsett apart from that, very good! Edited 16 August 2020 by Aleksz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chocolate Teapot Posted 16 August 2020 Share Posted 16 August 2020 22 hours ago, ramadaone said: To be frank anyone claiming to be IKT in the current climate is a fibber Training ground in lockdown with only essential staff in there so any leaks regarding transfers and it won’t take long to work out who the mole is. Gaffer and Rudkin very adamant regarding transfer targets remaining under the radar. Stick to John Percy and you won’t go far wrong 👍 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffschlupp Posted 16 August 2020 Share Posted 16 August 2020 28 minutes ago, Aleksz said: Alan Nixon for The S*n would definitely deserve to be a lot higher. Was the first journo to get to Mahrez to Man City, Maddison to us and Rodgers to us. People turn their nose up at him because of who he works for but he knows his stuff. You’re also definitely flattering Dorsett apart from that, very good! Nixon is only a bit lower because he does think he knows everything about every club, and often it is guesswork. I will grant you he did call Ward to us before anyone else as well as the others, but he has also dropped some clear made-up shockers (linking us to Robben for a start). Dorsett could probably be lower yeah but he's always the first to know on deadline day and was decent all the way through about Tielemans last year. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lcfc_forever Posted 16 August 2020 Share Posted 16 August 2020 1 hour ago, jeffschlupp said: Ive written this up. For context all of the Leicester/Midlands related journos are named first, the rest are national or international. Most of them have offered info about us before. Official Tier: lcfc.com / @LCFC Tier 1 (Top reliability): John Percy (Telegraph) / David Ornstein (Athletic) / Mohamed Bouhafsi (RMC, France) / Fabrizio Romano (Sky Italia) / Christian Falk (Bild, Germany) / Henry Winter (Times) / Kristof Terreur (HLN, Belgium) / BBC Sport / Sam Wallace (Telegraph) / Jonathan Northcroft (Times) Tier 2 (Reliable): Rob Tanner (Athletic) / Rob Dorsett (Sky) / James Nursey (Mirror) / Laurie Whitwell (Athletic) / Nick Mashiter (PA) / Stuart James (Athletic) / Dominic King (Mail) / Matt Law (Telegraph) / James Ducker (Telegraph) / Geoff Peters / Maher Mezahi (Algeria) / Rafa Honigstein (German football) / Bild / RMC / Kicker / De Telegraaf Tier 3 (Decent): Jordan Blackwell (Mercury) / Alan Nixon (Sun) / Gianluca Di Marzio / Mike McGrath (Telegraph) / Adrian Kajumba (Mail) / James Sharpe (Mail) / Duncan Castles (Portuguese players/clubs only) / The Times / The Guardian Tier 4 (Mostly nonsense): Ian Stringer (Radio Leicester) / Sky Sports News (except Dorsett) / ESPN / Simon Jones (Mail) / Dean Jones (BR) / TalkSport / Kaveh Solhekol Tier 5 (shite): LCFC HQ / Sean From Enderby / IndyKaila / most FoxesTalk ITKs / Express / Sun (except Nixon) / Metro / HITC / Nicolo Schira (Italy) Good aggregators of foreign sources: Sport Witness (translation) / GFFN (France) Not sure if it's any help and whether it needs adding to, but I think it's a pretty accurate summary of who to trust. Really nice work, cheers for doing this @jeffschlupp. As @SheppyFox said, there are a couple or so of Foxestalk ITKs who've got things right a lot more often than not: @themightyfin @Ashley@Abrasive fox 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aleksz Posted 16 August 2020 Share Posted 16 August 2020 (edited) 4 minutes ago, lcfc_forever said: Really nice work, cheers for doing this @jeffschlupp. As @SheppyFox said, there are a couple or so of Foxestalk ITKs who've got things right a lot more often than not: @themightyfin @Ashley@Abrasive fox We haven’t truly got an ITK on here these days. One of those people you’ve listed has been saying over the last few weeks we’re skint and we’re not going to spend. Another has been arguing all weekend that we’re not skint at all. as Ramadaone said (Who is the best ITK we’ve had on here btw), we keep are cards close to our chest these days. Edited 16 August 2020 by Aleksz 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SheppyFox Posted 16 August 2020 Share Posted 16 August 2020 1 hour ago, StanSP said: @ramadaone Forgot him sorry Rama! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1972 Fox Posted 16 August 2020 Share Posted 16 August 2020 1 hour ago, SheppyFox said: @Ashley @Abrasive fox @themightyfin These three are my favourite forum ITKs 😀 1 hour ago, StanSP said: @ramadaone Agree with these and would also add @Albert. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HankMarvin Posted 16 August 2020 Share Posted 16 August 2020 16 minutes ago, lcfc_forever said: Really nice work, cheers for doing this @jeffschlupp. As @SheppyFox said, there are a couple or so of Foxestalk ITKs who've got things right a lot more often than not: @themightyfin @Ashley@Abrasive fox Didnt Ashley get Perez right, thats it.....TheMightyfin and Abrasivefox have quite a long list of good intel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lcfc_forever Posted 16 August 2020 Share Posted 16 August 2020 3 minutes ago, HankMarvin said: Didnt Ashley get Perez right, thats it.....TheMightyfin and Abrasivefox have quite a long list of good intel I think Ashley was first to say we'd bid for Chris Mepham before he joined Bournemouth too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HankMarvin Posted 16 August 2020 Share Posted 16 August 2020 10 minutes ago, lcfc_forever said: I think Ashley was first to say we'd bid for Chris Mepham before he joined Bournemouth too. and a player from Valencia that never signed? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashley Posted 16 August 2020 Share Posted 16 August 2020 1 hour ago, HankMarvin said: and a player from Valencia that never signed? 😂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kyleolly Posted 16 August 2020 Share Posted 16 August 2020 With all his intel I think @Liamlcfc1 was related to Jon Rudkin definate ITK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MPH Posted 16 August 2020 Share Posted 16 August 2020 4 hours ago, Wymsey said: Or Liamlcfc? He’s gone into the woodwork a bit since we stopped using helicopters Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sly Posted 16 August 2020 Share Posted 16 August 2020 3 hours ago, Aleksz said: Ive written this up. For context all of the Leicester/Midlands related journos are named first, the rest are national or international. Most of them have offered info about us before. Official Tier: lcfc.com / @LCFC Tier 1 (Top reliability): John Percy (Telegraph) / David Ornstein (Athletic) / Mohamed Bouhafsi (RMC, France) / Fabrizio Romano (Sky Italia) / Christian Falk (Bild, Germany) / Henry Winter (Times) / Kristof Terreur (HLN, Belgium) / BBC Sport / Sam Wallace (Telegraph) / Jonathan Northcroft (Times) Tier 2 (Reliable): Rob Tanner (Athletic) / Rob Dorsett (Sky) / James Nursey (Mirror) / Laurie Whitwell (Athletic) / Nick Mashiter (PA) / Stuart James (Athletic) / Dominic King (Mail) / Matt Law (Telegraph) / James Ducker (Telegraph) / Geoff Peters / Maher Mezahi (Algeria) / Rafa Honigstein (German football) / Bild / RMC / Kicker / De Telegraaf Tier 3 (Decent): Jordan Blackwell (Mercury) / Alan Nixon (Sun) / Gianluca Di Marzio / Mike McGrath (Telegraph) / Adrian Kajumba (Mail) / James Sharpe (Mail) / Duncan Castles (Portuguese players/clubs only) / The Times / The Guardian Tier 4 (Mostly nonsense): Ian Stringer (Radio Leicester) / Sky Sports News (except Dorsett) / ESPN / Simon Jones (Mail) / Dean Jones (BR) / TalkSport / Kaveh Solhekol Tier 5 (shite): LCFC HQ / Sean From Enderby / IndyKaila / most FoxesTalk ITKs / Express / Sun (except Nixon) / Metro / HITC / Nicolo Schira (Italy) Good aggregators of foreign sources: Sport Witness (translation) / GFFN (France) Top list! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Earle Posted 16 August 2020 Share Posted 16 August 2020 But did any of the so-called ITKs know that Kasper would welly the ball at Wilf’s backside and cost us a place in the Champions League? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1972 Fox Posted 16 August 2020 Share Posted 16 August 2020 (edited) 5 hours ago, jeffschlupp said: Ive written this up. For context all of the Leicester/Midlands related journos are named first, the rest are national or international. Most of them have offered info about us before. Official Tier: lcfc.com / @LCFC Tier 1 (Top reliability): John Percy (Telegraph) / David Ornstein (Athletic) / Mohamed Bouhafsi (RMC, France) / Fabrizio Romano (Sky Italia) / Christian Falk (Bild, Germany) / Henry Winter (Times) / Kristof Terreur (HLN, Belgium) / BBC Sport / Sam Wallace (Telegraph) / Jonathan Northcroft (Times) Tier 2 (Reliable): Rob Tanner (Athletic) / Rob Dorsett (Sky) / James Nursey (Mirror) / Laurie Whitwell (Athletic) / Nick Mashiter (PA) / Stuart James (Athletic) / Dominic King (Mail) / Matt Law (Telegraph) / James Ducker (Telegraph) / Geoff Peters / Maher Mezahi (Algeria) / Rafa Honigstein (German football) / Bild / RMC / Kicker / De Telegraaf Tier 3 (Decent): Jordan Blackwell (Mercury) / Alan Nixon (Sun) / Gianluca Di Marzio / Mike McGrath (Telegraph) / Adrian Kajumba (Mail) / James Sharpe (Mail) / Duncan Castles (Portuguese players/clubs only) / The Times / The Guardian Tier 4 (Mostly nonsense): Ian Stringer (Radio Leicester) / Sky Sports News (except Dorsett) / ESPN / Simon Jones (Mail) / Dean Jones (BR) / TalkSport / Kaveh Solhekol Tier 5 (shite): LCFC HQ / Sean From Enderby / IndyKaila / most FoxesTalk ITKs / Express / Sun (except Nixon) / Metro / HITC / Nicolo Schira (Italy) Good aggregators of foreign sources: Sport Witness (translation) / GFFN (France) Not sure if it's any help and whether it needs adding to, but I think it's a pretty accurate summary of who to trust. Would have liked to see a more comprehensive list. Seriously though, absolute top work Schluppmeister. Edited 16 August 2020 by Blue Fox 72 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mozartfox Posted 16 August 2020 Share Posted 16 August 2020 Great piece of intelligent work and thanks. Just one comment though there might be a Tier 6 - the Total Bell Ends. Mainly ex players like Alan Smith for example who continually advise our players to move to the Big 6. TalkSPORT has a few of them. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CloudFox Posted 16 August 2020 Share Posted 16 August 2020 1 hour ago, Ashley said: 😂 What on earth ever happened with that one haha? Are you at liberty to say who it was? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
urban.spaceman Posted 17 August 2020 Share Posted 17 August 2020 Can't believe nobody's put me down as an ITK yet. I mean definitely I'm not ITK but a bit of recognition would be nice. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MPH Posted 17 August 2020 Share Posted 17 August 2020 1 hour ago, urban.spaceman said: Can't believe nobody's put me down as an ITK yet. I mean definitely I'm not ITK but a bit of recognition would be nice. You do know a lot of very interesting things... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brucey Posted 17 August 2020 Share Posted 17 August 2020 @jamesmilner never gets mentioned for some reason but is pretty much the best one here. One-off bits of info by long term members with no previous ITK claims actually tends to have a half decent hit rate (Big Daddy etc). I would upgrade Laurie Whitwell to Tier 1 but otherwise the list looks pretty accurate. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
urban fox Posted 17 August 2020 Share Posted 17 August 2020 2 minutes ago, brucey said: @jamesmilner never gets mentioned for some reason but is pretty much the best one here. One-off bits of info by long term members with no previous ITK claims actually tends to have a half decent hit rate (Big Daddy etc). I would upgrade Laurie Whitwell to Tier 1 but otherwise the list looks pretty accurate. Agree with this. Sometimes an odd snippet comes from someone who knows someone, maybe not even connected to the club per se. There are lots of people like the corner shop owner or visiting tradespeople doing jobs at players houses etc that can often pick up tasty bits of info like a player cancelling their papers, neighbours seeing estate agents round the house etc. We Lomé about xyz being seen in Morrisons or some such, but incoming players would have to be looking for somewhere to live/shop/send the kids to school etc. All potential for a rumour Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
urban.spaceman Posted 17 August 2020 Share Posted 17 August 2020 8 hours ago, MPH said: You do know a lot of very interesting things... I beg to differ. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liamlcfc1 Posted 17 August 2020 Share Posted 17 August 2020 13 hours ago, MPH said: He’s gone into the woodwork a bit since we stopped using helicopters Never been much into carpentry 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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