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Death to all ITKs

jones

Dules you need to get off your tweet posting style more often if your posts turn out like that 😆

Great thread by the way

Biggus

Ivansen wrote:
What's the pun? Did she have metaphorical fake tits?

No she had "real" fake tits.

Segway

MuswellHillGooner

A US Sports Website Has Gone On A Hiring Spree Of UK Journalists

The Times' chief sports correspondent Oliver Kay,
northern sports correspondent George Caulkin,
sports editor Alex Kay-Jelski

the Independent’s sports editor Ed Malyon.
the Guardian’s chief football writer Daniel Taylor
the BBC’s top football correspondent David Ornstein

Daily Mail, executive sports news editor Laura Williamson;
Midlands correspondent Laurie Whitwell;
Adam Crafton, recipient of the 2017 Young Sports Writer of the Year award from the Sports Journalists’ Association

There’s the Liverpool Echo’s James Pearce (covers Liverpool and has 478,000 followers);
the Yorkshire Post’s Phil Hay (covers Leeds United, 165,000 followers);
the Brighton Argus’s chief sports reporter Andy Naylor (covers Brighton, 18,000 followers);
the Express and Star’s Tim Spiers (covers Wolverhampton Wolves, 29,000 followers);
Goal.com’s Sam Lee (covers Manchester City, 53,000 followers);
ESPN’s Liam Twomey (covers Chelsea, 44,000 followers).

But there are others who are striking a more cautious tone.
One veteran who turned down the offer to join the US site told BuzzFeed News: “They have a big ball of money and they’re chucking it around now. It’ll only be great if in two years' time there aren’t a bunch of great football writers out of work.”

https://www.buzzfeed.com/amphtml/markdistefano/athletic-hiring-spree?

QuincyAbeyie

That's some really credible names they've got there, relatively speaking. The payment plan doesn't seem viable for me though, so if they're depending on that then it won't end well.

mdgoonah41

they always have promo codes for signup. i think i paid $40 for 1 year. thats less than $4 a month. across basketball and baseball alone, i read 2-3 articles a day. well worth it for me. not having to deal with ads or junk flash vids everywhere is more than worth it to me

Clrnc

Wow that's basically both Liverpool and Arsenal ITK gone there.

Gazza M

wonder if they'll still be on the same club beats. a large portion of their following is because they've been as the gold standard for inside knowledge of those clubs.

JazzG

Quincy Abeyie wrote:
That's some really credible names they've got there, relatively speaking. The payment plan doesn't seem viable for me though, so if they're depending on that then it won't end well.

If it is good quality articles I think people will pay for it, last year they had for black Friday a $2.50 per month deal which isn't too bad.

Mirth

I wonder if they'll have the same connections though - part of the appeal for clubs to leak directly to some of the ITKs was because they were writing for big news organisations with national coverage

jones

Completely forgot about this thread. Great read even four years later

Klaus

Ages like a fine wine.

Claudius

For that price they need to have tons of articles, podcasts, exclusive celeb access to get me to subscribe. There are so many platforms with subscription options be it Vox, NY Times, The Times, Arseblog, etc. the industry needs to figure this payment model and price points.

Qwiss

Clrnc wrote:
Wow that's basically both Liverpool and Arsenal ITK gone there.

Ornsteins ITK credentials were done anyway. Good timing for him.

jones

Yeah good time for him to move to that retirement league.

Mirth makes a good point too, who knows whether they'll get the same info from their sources now that they work for some obscure American platform

mdgoonah41

Claudius wrote:
For that price they need to have tons of articles, podcasts, exclusive celeb access to get me to subscribe. There are so many platforms with subscription options be it Vox, NY Times, The Times, Arseblog, etc. the industry needs to figure this payment model and price points.

if you are going to follow the NBA this season, i think its definitely worth it for that alone. the sixers writers normally have at least 5-6 pieces up per week, sometimes more, and they are almost always in depth. plus the national NBA coverage stuff, plus draft stuff. well worth it. i haven't even bothered looking into their footie stuff yet, but if they are bringing in respected journalists, i am sure the content will be worth it. $3-4 per month (and it is less when you get one of the promos which are always running) is well worth it, imo. like i noted above too, not having to see lots of ads and flash videos that autoplay is a HUGE benefit. its worth it financially just to not have to deal with that nonsense. i do think they are trying to start rolling out podcasts, i think shams has one now on the NBA stuff, obviously.

MuswellHillGooner

David Ornstein on 5 Live Sport.

Arsenal have never officially said it but is the understanding of BBC that, since they missed CL, it was in the 45mil budget range which the deals struck, so far, keep it below as payments are structured over a few years.
Pepe deal, for example, is £72m that will be structured over the 5 years of his contract.
It is important to note, however, that we might never know if the owners have invested anything now that the club is 100% owned.

Arsenal still have some work to close the Pepe deal but it looks like it will get done in the next 24-48 hours.
Napoli has/had a deal with Lille but that fell down because they couldn't agree with the agent.
Zaha not happening if this happens as Palace wanted way more money upfront than Lille so the Zaha deal is very tough on our budget.
Auba and Laca nor anyone else significant will depart to finance this deal.

Defensively, there is confidence with Holding coming back, Bellerin coming back and Saliba next season.
Celtic and Arsenal have agreed on the price for Tierney but need to agree with the structure of the deal as Celtic want more money upfront.

Arsenal transfers after this deal will be very limited as as this will take a significant chunk out of our £45m warchest and we will need to sell some players before we can buy.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00074p2
Forward to 1:17:30 (past all the nonsense)

naz

45m "warchest"

😆

mdgoonah41

mdgoonah41 wrote:
they always have promo codes for signup. i think i paid $40 for 1 year. thats less than $4 a month. across basketball and baseball alone, i read 2-3 articles a day. well worth it for me. not having to deal with ads or junk flash vids everywhere is more than worth it to me

fyi, for anyone who wants to subscribe to the athletic, if you use the code mlbtrade40 during signup through july 31 you get 40% off for the year. they have these types of promos a lot, just posting this one here because i just saw it recently, in case anyone is interested.

goon

mdgoonah41 wrote:
mdgoonah41 wrote:
they always have promo codes for signup. i think i paid $40 for 1 year. thats less than $4 a month. across basketball and baseball alone, i read 2-3 articles a day. well worth it for me. not having to deal with ads or junk flash vids everywhere is more than worth it to me

fyi, for anyone who wants to subscribe to the athletic, if you use the code mlbtrade40 during signup through july 31 you get 40% off for the year. they have these types of promos a lot, just posting this one here because i just saw it recently, in case anyone is interested.

50% for August.

I signed up to it and I have to say the content really shows up the shite you get in mainstream media on a daily basis.

Though gunnerblogs letter to Kroenke was a bit cringe.

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