(Antedote to 'won't sell' thread.)
Or, as I prefer to call them, 'well-trodden transfer trails' (when they clearly are not).
I am fond of transfers that are ridiculously random, between clubs that have no proximity at all, that make one wonder about their scouting networks. Clearly, with freedom of movement etc (ahhh), there are some marvellous cross-border moves, but I want to point out moves within Britain that must, must be one-offs.
Take Elgin City's summer goalkeeper signing Tom McHale. Guess where he was signed from? Aberdeen? Ross County? Or somewhere far flung like Dumbarton or St Mirren? Nope, he moved from Truro City, for whom he was a near ever-present last season. Truro to Elgin. Splendid.
Torquay striker Ruairi Keating may catch the media's eye by being related to singer Ronan, but I am moved much more by the fact that he joined the Gulls from Finn Harps. Finn Harps to Torquay, that well-worn transfer trail...
The SPFL is full of these. Elliott Frear (Forest Green to Motherwell), Cole Kpekawa (Colchester to St Mirren) and Tom Owen-Evans (Newport to Falkirk) being spectacular recent examples of the art.
That. That is what i am looking for.
Or, as I prefer to call them, 'well-trodden transfer trails' (when they clearly are not).
I am fond of transfers that are ridiculously random, between clubs that have no proximity at all, that make one wonder about their scouting networks. Clearly, with freedom of movement etc (ahhh), there are some marvellous cross-border moves, but I want to point out moves within Britain that must, must be one-offs.
Take Elgin City's summer goalkeeper signing Tom McHale. Guess where he was signed from? Aberdeen? Ross County? Or somewhere far flung like Dumbarton or St Mirren? Nope, he moved from Truro City, for whom he was a near ever-present last season. Truro to Elgin. Splendid.
Torquay striker Ruairi Keating may catch the media's eye by being related to singer Ronan, but I am moved much more by the fact that he joined the Gulls from Finn Harps. Finn Harps to Torquay, that well-worn transfer trail...
The SPFL is full of these. Elliott Frear (Forest Green to Motherwell), Cole Kpekawa (Colchester to St Mirren) and Tom Owen-Evans (Newport to Falkirk) being spectacular recent examples of the art.
That. That is what i am looking for.
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