📝 Mai Traore Signs

[SwalePie]

Looks like the rumours were true!

https://www.nottscountyfc.co.uk/news/2025/february/03/signing--mai-traore/

[HeroPie1862]

Mai Mai Mai... Traore!

Another striker who's played in Scandinavia, perhaps another gem?

[MapperleyMagpie]

Notts just posted a guinea flag on twitter! Plus he is following us on social media





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[WarsopPie]

Looks like the rumours were true!

They call him ?The Beast? for a reason in Scandinavia

[Med Pie]

They call him ?The Beast? for a reason in Scandinavia

I was told recently that referring to black players specifically as 'A' or 'The beast', is now considered derogatory. I don't think it is personally, I use the term to refer to any anyone who is lucky enough to be so powerfully built, of any colour.

Edit: I note in the previous posts that the quotation mark glitch still occurs but it didn't with my post?

[HeroPie1862]

I was told recently that referring to black players specifically as 'A' or 'The beast', is now considered derogatory. I don't think it is personally, I use the term to refer to any anyone who is lucky enough to be so powerfully built, of any colour.

Edit: I note in the previous posts that the quotation mark glitch still occurs but it didn't with my post?

Every now and again I feel like you're capable of an actual discussion.

I do somewhat agree with where you're coming from, but more often than not players of colour often are referred to by their traits - what they are - rather than who they are, it's one of those things where you'd not call a white player that as casually as a black player and it's where it stems from.

It's been a common thing in sports for years and really has been considered more in the past four years a bit stronger than it used to be.

Here's a paper where someone was quoted way back in 1987 as to why beastial terms are subtly racist.

https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/v...ontext=pocpwi2

Basically... Victor Wanyama would likely be called a 'beast' but Sam Vokes would be called a 'unit'

[Seasonedpie]

Welcome Mai. Hope hes another Jatta but would still like Mullins or someone (on loan to end of season)who could do a job straight away

[marshall55]

Agreed, is he " oven ready"

[slack_pie]

Love these signings! COYP

[MapperleyMagpie]

Agreed, is he " oven ready"

Think he will be longer term replacement for next season. Jatta stays unless mullin or macca comes in I think