30 minutes ago, Five Generations Vale said:

Again off topic sorry, I am currently enjoying a (cheap) city break in Belgrade Serbia of all places and went to the Nikola Tesla Museum. Worth a visit for anybody interested in that sort of thing and having several thousand volts pumped in to you on a test machine was quite frightening but fascinating (more exciting than some of the Vale games I have been over my 50 or so years of following the Vale!). But the point of the story is the young Serbian lad doing this demo asked where I was from and when I said Stoke-on-Trent he said “Stoke City or Port Vale“. When I said “Vale of course” he said “yes the team in Black and White”. Impressive I thought and just shows genuine football fans around the world know their stuff and good that Vale are known in this part of the world. Sorry he had no rumours about us signing any Serbian superstars to give some alignment to the topic. Keep the posts coming, reading OVF every hour beats talking to the wife!

Wow… unbelievable… I ve just got back from the same place!!

31 minutes ago, Guitar Ray said:

I’m not telling anyone what to do if you read what was written.

I take your point about mental health, but if you read the guys recent comments he doesn’t seem too heart broken about the fence, rather he’s joking about it.

Fair play to you for sitting on here all day looking to see if anyone has any rumours or inside knowledge on who we’re signing, but like it or not it’s totally unnecessary, you don’t NEED, to know any of this stuff.  Personally, I don’t have either the time or the inclination, I NEED to work and NEED to do plenty other things with my life other than chew the fat on who we may or may not sign.  You and Gareth obviously have time to burn and different priorities, which is fine by me.

The stated fact remains that numerous managers have expressed privacy concerns over the training facilities and the club have now decided to take steps to mitigate this.  Maybe the fact that some clown is posting team news for some other dimwits to read on social media before discussing on an internet forum had something to do with this.  Who knows?

Ahahah dont have the time or inclination to talk about transfers however here you are currently sitting posting on a transfer thread of a FORUM talking about people who are talking about transfers. Think youve got more time on your hands than you think pal.

People talk about rumours on every single club forum in the country. Twitter pages post hundreds of tweets a day on rumours and inside knowledge. I think more people are interested in this kind of thing more than you think. Were 178 pages into this thread and signed one player.

managers are worried about privacy i think youll find that worry is probably more aimed at journalists and spys from other clubs not Gareth having a gander on his morning walk 😂

Can just see it now lee bell in preparation for the derby game sitting in his office with Gareths tweets printed out saying were playing a back 5 with mitch at left back we can use this to gain advantage. You seriously think that would be the case?

45 minutes ago, Guitar Ray said:

I’m not telling anyone what to do if you read what was written.

I take your point about mental health, but if you read the guys recent comments he doesn’t seem too heart broken about the fence, rather he’s joking about it.

Fair play to you for sitting on here all day looking to see if anyone has any rumours or inside knowledge on who we’re signing, but like it or not it’s totally unnecessary, you don’t NEED, to know any of this stuff.  Personally, I don’t have either the time or the inclination, I NEED to work and NEED to do plenty other things with my life other than chew the fat on who we may or may not sign.  You and Gareth obviously have time to burn and different priorities, which is fine by me.

The stated fact remains that numerous managers have expressed privacy concerns over the training facilities and the club have now decided to take steps to mitigate this.  Maybe the fact that some clown is posting team news for some other dimwits to read on social media before discussing on an internet forum had something to do with this.  Who knows?

Your 5000+ posts deep into ovf aswell so your happy to chew the fat over most things related to vale but transfers is where you draw the line?

 

 

 

21 hours ago, philmpv said:

22 hours ago, darren1810 said:

Jordan Slew cost a million ! 

Zimbabwe dollars?

Old Turkish lira. 😃

Stevenage have signed a couple of players from Plymouth.

Saxon Earley & Jordan Houghton

16 hours ago, Guitar Ray said:

I’m not telling anyone what to do if you read what was written.

I take your point about mental health, but if you read the guys recent comments he doesn’t seem too heart broken about the fence, rather he’s joking about it.

Fair play to you for sitting on here all day looking to see if anyone has any rumours or inside knowledge on who we’re signing, but like it or not it’s totally unnecessary, you don’t NEED, to know any of this stuff.  Personally, I don’t have either the time or the inclination, I NEED to work and NEED to do plenty other things with my life other than chew the fat on who we may or may not sign.  You and Gareth obviously have time to burn and different priorities, which is fine by me.

The stated fact remains that numerous managers have expressed privacy concerns over the training facilities and the club have now decided to take steps to mitigate this.  Maybe the fact that some clown is posting team news for some other dimwits to read on social media before discussing on an internet forum had something to do with this.  Who knows?

That fence ain't come cheap.

Looks like those down the road are about to lose Sol Sidibe to Aston Villa for a fee that could rise to 20m

28 minutes ago, werstayinup said:

Looks like those down the road are about to lose Sol Sidibe to Aston Villa for a fee that could rise to 20m

I had do a course at Stoke, he and 10 others managed to break the lift, they were in there for an hour 🙂 

Everton have released young goalkeepers 

Billy Crelin and Zan-Luk Leban 

Crelin played 38 times for Accrington last season 

Edited June 9, 2025Jun 9 by Brian Johnson

17 hours ago, Bobnewtonian said:

Wow… unbelievable… I ve just got back from the same place!!

Rich b.😁

1 hour ago, Vale Ball said:

That fence ain't come cheap.

I remember when it was bycars lake, burslem albions ground, a marlhole,a rub bish tip hills and grasslands and pigeon lofts.! We had many massive bonfires on that land.now you cant walk across it.i betnot many of you remember finneys field and all the old mine shafts.🫡

 

26 minutes ago, geoff1 said:

I remember when it was bycars lake, burslem albions ground, a marlhole,a rub bish tip hills and grasslands and pigeon lofts.! We had many massive bonfires on that land.now you cant walk across it.i betnot many of you remember finneys field and all the old mine shafts.🫡

 

Here you go, Geoff, a map from when you were a lad ...

Rico just been released by Villa.

Sign him up Darren

I’d go with bringing him in too. No great insight other than to say things always seem to happen when he’s on the pitch. Needs to work on how he can impact games for longer but then he never really got a sustained opportunity to do that.