Talk:Timothy Batabaire

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You just have to dig a little deeper and use logic. The key here is to find articles that were written between 2003 and 2005 when the player is said to have played for the Serbian club and the wikipedia entry did not even exist yet. Articles that were written like 5 years later or so and claim that he played for Nis likely got their information from nft or the wikipedia article itself.

To avoid confusion the player joined Celtic in October 2004.[1]

This article [2] from 2003 has him playing for Villa, so has this one [3] from a about year later. This is exactly the time span when he is said to have played in Serbia but he is twice listed as a Villa player.

This article from 2004 confirms that he joined Celtic from Villa and not from Nis. [4]. Same thing here [5]. Still no mention of him joining from Nis or having played for Nis at all. Same thing here. [6] All of his former clubs are mentioned. Except one. Odd...

Also his profile on weltfussball.de has no mention of him playing in Serbia either [7]

And if youre still not convinced: Just google Timothy Batabaire OFK Nis and set the custom range from 2003 to 2004.

This is just another case where a website (nft.com) makes up stuff or simply confuses players and everybody else (playerhistory) just copies it.

Cheers, Thuglife99 (talk) 23:45, 27 September 2011 (UTC)

NFT stats that he spend with OFK Niš the second half of 2003-04 season, and beggining of 2004-2005. If he joined Celtic in October 2004, he may well have played the 3 matches NFT claims he played in 2004-05 season, as season in Serbia starts in August. He may well have played August and September with OFK Niš, before coming to Celtic in October 2004, so by that there is no proof of anything. He may also have easily been on loan in Serbia, something NFT don´t differenciate in their stats. And of course he played in 2003 with Villa, as second part of seasons in Serbia begins in March of next year, meaning he may well have played in 2003 with Villa, and moved in early 2004 to play those 8 matches in the second part of the 2003-04 season with OFK Niš.

Thuglife, you need to find a source claiming he was somwhere else between February and October 2004, otherwise we don´t have anything saying otherwise NFT. FkpCascais (talk) 22:01, 27 September 2011 (UTC)

Guys, the article talk page is a more appropriate location for this discussion than my talk page, just saying ;) GiantSnowman 22:05, 27 September 2011 (UTC)

You´re absolutely right. I´ll copy/paste this there. FkpCascais (talk) 22:08, 27 September 2011 (UTC)