The trading side of the club: the squad needs behind the next window, confirmed business, the loan register, the scouting method and thecurated rumour register. Confirmed transfers and rumours stay in separate registers; the needs board is where the themes meet recruitment.
Role profiles and market routes only. No specific targets, fees or wages. The measured depth/availability drives the category; the curated prior is shown separately. Availability is a special case of team news. With 2 known and 32 unknown entries, injury cover cannot be classified for players without a verified public team-news record; context-only names are not published and do not change the model.
Moves include loans, frees and youth/development registrations, and one player can appear more than once (a loan out and a return, for example). The register spans 8 seasons and 19 windows; 4 rows carry an official announcement and the rest are curated from the provider feed and Wikipedia.
Rumours are curated with a public source, a status and an editorial confidence. Status is a lifecycle label, not a probability. A confirmed rumour links back to the transfer register; it never becomes a second source of truth.
Links0curated
Active0still live
Confirmed0linked to transfers
Fan signals40names mentioned
No curated rumours yet
The register is deliberately empty until a link has a public source. Fan chatter is shown as a signal, not as a rumour.
The fan signal now separates external targets from current squad, current non-official and former players. The target profile counts active incoming external links only; a former player linked back is a return link, not a normal target.
No active, curated links yet. The profile activates when the rumour register has sourced rows; until then it is deliberately empty.
0 active links · weighted by editorial confidence and recency (180-day half-life).
Position mix
No weight in this bucket yet.
Fan signal · reference use
What the Rumour Mill is talking about
4 topics83 postsfirst pages only
Names are extracted with a player gazetteer, then labelled by whether the same name also appears in the press rumour register, the club's output or confirmed business. A mention is not a transfer link, and a cross-reference is not a probability.
Sampled player mentions and cross-reference labels.
Labels: Fan only — no other source; Aberdeen player — current squad; Register cross-ref — in the confirmed register within 550 days, not a current deal; Press cross-ref — a curated press rumour; Club output cross-ref — surname appears in AFC news; Confirmed rumour — the curated rumour is confirmed.
Lookup: Former register — the name resolves to a confirmed former Aberdeen player; Scouted pool — the name is in the scouted player universe; API lookup — the name was found in neither, so it was resolved once through the provider's player-profile search. An ambiguous name is not guessed.
External names mentioned — positions
CM25%
DEF25%
GK25%
MID25%
External names mentioned — age bands
24-2638%
27-2925%
21-2313%
30-plus13%
under-2113%
The position and age mixes count external names only, not current squad or former players. This is still a descriptive profile of sampled first pages, not the club's recruitment list. The table keeps every affiliation; the position and age bars count external targets only.
No raw post bodies, usernames or quotes are published. The forum states search=yes, ai-train=no, use=reference; fitba uses the text as a reference signal only and does not train a model on it.
Sampled first pages of recent Rumour Mill topics. This is not the whole thread, the whole forum or the fanbase. No raw post bodies, usernames or quotes are published, and the text is not used for AI training.