"Tapping up"

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Besides 'declaring interest' is there any other way you can tap up/unsettled a player?
 
Not really, but I managed to get ter Stegen to refuse signing a contract with gladbach and then got him on a free.
 
I've never managed to properly tap up a player. I try for a few months, declaring interest and making offers, but he never gets unhappy and stuff. I'm even on of his favourite personnel now :P

The player in question is Eden Hazard, so I don't think it's a question of loyalty.
 
c0nk3r said:
I've never managed to properly tap up a player. I try for a few months, declaring interest and making offers, but he never gets unhappy and stuff. I'm even on of his favourite personnel now :P

The player in question is Eden Hazard, so I don't think it's a question of loyalty.
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How exactly is Hazard not loyal? He stayed at Lille, maybe 1 or 2 seasons longer than he needed to because he was loyal to them. But for a player of his talent he needed to move onto bigger things. While the way he went about what club he was going to join was a bit tedious, it has nothing to do with loyalty that he picked Chelsea over any other team.

Yeah they won the UCL and that probably effected his judgement (I still think his choice was woeful), but to call him an unloyal player when he's only played for 2 senior teams is a joke.
 
craiigman said:
How exactly is Hazard not loyal? He stayed at Lille, maybe 1 or 2 seasons longer than he needed to because he was loyal to them. But for a player of his talent he needed to move onto bigger things. While the way he went about what club he was going to join was a bit tedious, it has nothing to do with loyalty that he picked Chelsea over any other team.

Yeah they won the UCL and that probably effected his judgement (I still think his choice was woeful), but to call him an unloyal player when he's only played for 2 senior teams is a joke.
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1) Making it clear now that I am not calling him disloyal, but nor can you say he is loyal.
2) He moved as soon as big clubs became interested in him for their first team. He had been linked to clubs a few times over the season and a bit before he moved, but only as a youngster rather than as a starter.
3) Gerrard probably deserved to move to a bigger club (No disrespect to Liverpool intended, but he deserves to of won the Premier League), but he chose not to. That is loyalty.
4) Saying he has only played for 2 senior teams makes him loyal when he is only 2 is also a joke.
 
Scotty98TR said:
1) Making it clear now that I am not calling him disloyal, but nor can you say he is loyal.
2) He moved as soon as big clubs became interested in him for their first team. He had been linked to clubs a few times over the season and a bit before he moved, but only as a youngster rather than as a starter.
3) Gerrard probably deserved to move to a bigger club (No disrespect to Liverpool intended, but he deserves to of won the Premier League), but he chose not to. That is loyalty.
4) Saying he has only played for 2 senior teams makes him loyal when he is only 2 is also a joke.
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1) He could have been in most top teams sides the season before, he chose to stay another year because of his loyalty to Lille. Also note I was not suggesting he is the most loyal player ever, but to call him unloyal was not fair.
2) Nope, as above.
3) Liverpool are WAY WAY WAY bigger than Lille. To compare the two is mind boggling.
4) You mean 22? And as I pointed out, I didn't say he was loyal. I just said he wasn't unloyal.
 
Now now ladies put the handbags away please.

(ps. in regards to the Gerrard deserving to win the PL, Shearer?)
 
Shearer is the most loyal player in PL history including Giggs.

Shearer chose HIS team over Man Utd ( a better chance of trophys).

People say Giggs is loyal.. why? Why would you leave Manchester united when you are constantly winning trophies and on good money.

Shearer could of joined any team in the league (and probably the world) if he wanted to, but he wanted to give the best years of his career to HIS club.

That is true loyalty
 
Scotty98TR said:
Shearer won the Premier League...
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Yes Shearer won the League at Blackburn but as Jean-Luc say's he chose his home town/boyhood team (Newcastle) over Man Utd- compare the success of both clubs over the period of his career.

Also a football man of loyalty - Sir Bobby Robson
 
Way to derail the thread..

Making offers for players once they like you is usually an easy way to unsettle them, fairly decent offer but one you know they'll reject or try to negotiate.
 
Since we're already derailing the thread, can we PLEASE stop writing "could of" and "should of"? This is childrens language.
 
TJD07 said:
Way to derail the thread..

Making offers for players once they like you is usually an easy way to unsettle them, fairly decent offer but one you know they'll reject or try to negotiate.
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Thanks, obviously nobody wants to play for Dortmund (or me!)
 
TJD07 said:
Making offers for players once they like you is usually an easy way to unsettle them, fairly decent offer but one you know they'll reject or try to negotiate.
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I've offered slightly over twice the player's value (and this is after he's come out to proclaim the "moving is a dream I want a formal bid" thingy) and got rejected, but the player has not declared his unhappiness. Like I said at the start, I'm even one of his favoured personnel now.

Strange.
 
Maybe wait a little till he's that exhausted he has to sit on the bench for 1-2 matches or had an injury and didn't have first team matches. I guess this helps to unsettle players.
 
craiigman said:
How exactly is Hazard not loyal? He stayed at Lille, maybe 1 or 2 seasons longer than he needed to because he was loyal to them. But for a player of his talent he needed to move onto bigger things. While the way he went about what club he was going to join was a bit tedious, it has nothing to do with loyalty that he picked Chelsea over any other team.

Yeah they won the UCL and that probably effected his judgement (I still think his choice was woeful), but to call him an unloyal player when he's only played for 2 senior teams is a joke.
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he also stated that he wanted to play for real madrid or arsenal when he was younger then just went to the team who offered him the most cash. he's not particularly disloyal but he's hardly a loyal player.
 
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