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Alexis Sanchez before the UEFA Champions League match between Barcelona and Manchester United at Camp Nou, Barcelona, April 2019.

25 weird & wonderful Twitter transfer announcements from Sanchez to Jota

Manchester United, Arsenal and Liverpool are just some of the many clubs to have announced signings with slightly bizarre social media videos.

The social media confirmation of a transfer has become a form of modern art in recent years, with clubs seemingly desperate to outdo each other.

Here, we’ve taken a look back at some of the weirdest and most wonderful player unveilings, featuring the likes of Paul Pogba, Mohamed Salah and Alexis Sanchez.

Alexis Sanchez (Man Utd, 2018)

Apparently he actually was playing the piano, which impressed us. But we’re still left wondering who came up with this idea and put it to Sanchez? Unless it was his idea, of course…

Jota (Al-Ittihad, 2023)

Bizarre.

Ricardo Quaresma (Vitoria Guimaraes, 2020)

Who needs a car when you can have a horse?

Aaron Hickey (Bologna, 2020)

This was only missing some shortbread and a bottle of Irn-Bru to complete our bingo card of Scottish stereotypes.

Jake Gray (Yeovil Town, 2017)

Next time Yeovil use Snapchat to announce a signing we hope it’s the player sat on the toilet bored after training.

George Friend (Bristol Rovers, 2023)

Those West Country folk are clearly a creative lot.

Andre Moreira (Aston Villa, 2018)

Ok, we do actually appreciate the “enter the Villa” pun in all fairness.

Sead Kolasinac (Arsenal, 2017)

We’re not sure that Arsenal listing 10 players fans would rather have seen them sign was a good way of announcing Kolasinac.

Arthur (Barcelona, 2018)

Right, what the hell is this all about?

Patrick Schick (Roma, 2017)

Your guess is as good as ours.

 

Gianluca Scamacca (West Ham, 2022)

Nice. Very nice.

Antonio Rudiger (Chelsea, 2017)

We’re genuinely embarrassed by this one.

Jan Bednarek (Southampton, 2017)

The problem with Southampton being incredibly subtle about signing Bednarek was that nobody has any idea who he is and they had to explain it in a subsequent tweet.

Wout Weghorst (Burnley, 2022)

Brilliance personified.

Mohamed Salah (Liverpool, 2017)

Admittedly, Salah looks painfully awkward at the end, but this is fine. It sort of pokes fun at the whole concept and mercifully lasts only 17 seconds.

Jesus Navas (Sevilla, 2017)

We think staging a kidnap might just be a bit too far.

Nicky Maynard (Newport, 2021)

Newport channelled Grand Theft Auto to announce the loan capture of Football League journeyman Maynard.

Marcel De Jong & David Edgar (Vancouver Whitecaps, 2016)

We think Pokemon Go was still a thing in 2016? We presume it’s not now? Who knows.

 

Josh Tymon (Stoke City, 2017)

Winner of the most awkward thumbs up in the history of the universe. Now we’re not seeing the guy managing the website that day didn’t know that much about Josh Tymon, but notice the Wikipedia tab…

They also had the Oatcake forum open. It’s always nice to know whether your work is appreciated.

 

Frank De Boer (Crystal Palace, 2017)

Thirty-five unexplained seconds of white smoke billowing out of a chicken shop to announce De Boer becoming the new Pope of South London. Perfectly nonsensical, much like the Dutchman’s tenure in charge of the Eagles.

Jan Valery (Birmingham City, 2021)

No surprises for guessing which song Birmingham used to announce the arrival of Valery in the winter of 2021…

Jamie Ness (Plymouth Argyle, 2017)

Plymouth spent the summer tweeting pretty difficult cryptic pictograms for who they’ve signed. The first response to this suggested “Legonoodle Windermere is a cracking player”.

Ronaldo Vieira (Sampdoria, 2018)

Poking fun at Juventus’ announcement of *Cristiano* Ronaldo, Sampdoria announced their own Ronaldo (Vieira).

Paul Pogba (Man Utd, 2016)

We can’t really forgive the whole ‘PogBOOM’ thing, but this was actually really great and should have forced other clubs to just stop trying.

Santi Cazorla (Villarreal, 2018)

We step away from the usual social media efforts to be different for this from Villarreal, who completely unnecessarily got a magician to make Cazorla appear in a plume of smoke, even though it was common knowledge that the midfielder had returned to the Spanish club.


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