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So this guy is consistently seen as some transfer god. Someone who seems to have connections nobody else (for whatever reason) does.

People cite that he "called" our previous transfers before others. Can someone please back this up with proof? Im not saying its wrong, its just that i think it's something people desperately want to believe.

Bohafsi is suppsedly also "reliable" whatever that means.

This can be a thread to prove or disprove their ability with proof please!
 
I am also pretty good, i said Griezmann wouldnt be joining, proof in the Griezmann thread
 
Weird.

No media source is perfect, if you find one that hits above par? Awesome
 
Zlatan, Pogba, Di Maria, saying our priority isn't Griezmann but Morata when everyone else was reporting Griezmann to Manchester United and many many others.

Di Marzio is well known to have a lot of friends in high places, mostly in Italian and other European clubs.
 
He doesn't really call things first. There will be lots of stories out before he comes in but he waits for more sure fire evidence I would say than others who jump quicker than he.

He's basically like an Urban Myth.
 
Kill 'em all said:
Zlatan, Pogba, Di Maria, saying our priority isn't Griezmann but Morata when everyone else was reporting Griezmann to Manchester United and many many others.

Di Marzio is well known to have a lot of friends in high places, mostly in Italian and other European clubs.
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No, see you're doing it also. Please can you show these tweets or articles re pogba, zlatan etc.

I do remember some guy tweeting out of nowhere about di maria when everyone else was sayingher was going PSG
 
I remember when he got these Darmian photos (and other news on that deal) ahead of everyone



No idea how he managed it. The man has his tentacles everywhere.
 
Dracula said:
So this guy is consistently seen as some transfer god. Someone who seems to have connections nobody else (for whatever reason) does.

People cite that he "called" our previous transfers before others. Can someone please back this up with proof? Im not saying its wrong, its just that i think it's something people desperately want to believe.

Bohafsi is suppsedly also "reliable" whatever that means.

This can be a thread to prove or disprove their ability with proof please!
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The Pogba one is the main one I know of. Don't have the tweets as I don't particularly feel like going back through his timeline for a year on twitter, but the locked Pogba thread will have them in the threadmarks.

Also said recently that Greizmann wasn't priority when everyone else believed it was a done deal.
 
Summit said:
I assume they meant Samuel Luckhurst

Basically, are you him?
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Yeah i got the joke i just thought you were implying i was backing him ( i know he's a bullshitter) in spite of di marzio. I just wonder if the di marzio thing is real or just an echo chamber of those who want what he says to be real
 
That what Di Marzio does, he drinks and he knows things
 
He's an Italian Sky Sports journalist. He gets some things right, he gets some things wrong. Ultimately, the job of sports journalism isn't to predict the future outcome of transfer windows. The best sports journalists are not simply the ones with the best crystal balls. In fact, they probably won't even be writing about transfer flimflam, which is essentially just a crapshoot of disinformation and outright lies swilling around dodgey agents and intermediaries with vested interests.
 
Italian journalist specialising in Serie A, naturally. He got Zlatan, Mkhi and Pogba spot on last year before pretty much everyone else, all Raiola clients, so perhaps it's a connection to Raiola. Not sure how reliable he is with regards to other transfers and teams but with United he has been fairly consistent.

He quoted fleetingly that we've bid for Fabinho several weeks ago and repeated this in an article last week, and I can see this being used against him when we inevitably don't get him. Probably will receive abuse on twitter and be called a fraud and what not. In fairness he hasn't gone big on that transfer as he did with others. I still think he's one of the most reliable out there personally.
 
I can't remember 2014. From 2015

Darmian - this guy literally gave us updates by the minute including a picture of darmian boarding a flight

Mourinho - he said beginning of 2016 that mourinho has an agreement and was pretty adamant about it even though links to psg were surfacing

Mkhi - again he reported around June 25th that a deal was done (Dortmund confirmed it on July 2)

zlatan -


regarding things he got wrong - i remember him mentioning some atletico DoF could join us with Mou. That didnt happen. So I suppose thats one.
 
prath92 said:
I can't remember 2014. From 2015

Darmian - this guy literally gave us updates by the minute including a picture of darmian boarding a flight

Mourinho - he said beginning of 2016 that mourinho has an agreement and was pretty adamant about it even though links to psg were surfacing

Mkhi - again he reported around June 25th that a deal was done (Dortmund confirmed it on July 2)

zlatan -


regarding things he got wrong - i remember him mentioning some atletico DoF could join us with Mou. That didnt happen. So I suppose thats one.
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Even then, can't really hold it against him. Apparently Mourinho pulled the plug on that deal at the last minute.
 
Andersons Dietician said:
He doesn't really call things first. There will be lots of stories out before he comes in but he waits for more sure fire evidence I would say than others who jump quicker than he.

He's basically like an Urban Myth.
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Rubbish. He's been the first to call a lot of high profile transfers
 
Zlatan, Pogba, Miki, Darmian, Di Maria were all called by him whether he was the first or one of the earliest to confirm. I believe he also reported about Mourinho coming to United early on as well. Hes as reliable as a journo can be frankly speaking and seems like a nice guy (on twitter) and his english speaking staff are cool.

All this while keeping in mind that they mainly cover Serie A transfers.
 
Why is it so important to prove or disprove? I mean some of you are taking this way too seriously and being unnecessarily critical.

So the man's a journalist and his job is to report stuff. Everyone makes mistakes now and then so what's the big deal if he says something and it does not happen? Plus a transfer is complicated business, not exactly walking into Sainsbury and picking a can of peas, so anything can fall apart.

Di Marzio has shown that his news tend to be more reliable than not. That's good enough. Believe him or not, what's the big deal?
 
Di Marzio is the number 1 transfer journalist in my opinion. No one has a 100% record so any errors dating multiple seasons ago can't really be used as a significant knock in credibility.

As mentioned above, he called Damien first (with exclusive pics), called mourinho zlatan and pogba to some granular levels of detail, he was spot on about Griezmann a day or two before it was confirmed by other outlets and same with Morata. This is all regarding our club only too.
 
prath92 said:
I can't remember 2014. From 2015

Darmian - this guy literally gave us updates by the minute including a picture of darmian boarding a flight

Mourinho - he said beginning of 2016 that mourinho has an agreement and was pretty adamant about it even though links to psg were surfacing

Mkhi - again he reported around June 25th that a deal was done (Dortmund confirmed it on July 2)

zlatan -


regarding things he got wrong - i remember him mentioning some atletico DoF could join us with Mou. That didnt happen. So I suppose thats one.
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yep and just because things change and don't happen does not mean he just made it up. Just like the AG saga, last minute decisions are not reflections on the quality of the Journalist. Some people really need to wake up and stop crying about shite like this.
 
Dracula said:
So this guy is consistently seen as some transfer god. Someone who seems to have connections nobody else (for whatever reason) does.

People cite that he "called" our previous transfers before others. Can someone please back this up with proof? Im not saying its wrong, its just that i think it's something people desperately want to believe.

Bohafsi is suppsedly also "reliable" whatever that means.

This can be a thread to prove or disprove their ability with proof please!
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Great post. You missed your chance to have a go at fanboys though.
 
Dracula said:
So this guy is consistently seen as some transfer god. Someone who seems to have connections nobody else (for whatever reason) does.

People cite that he "called" our previous transfers before others. Can someone please back this up with proof? Im not saying its wrong, its just that i think it's something people desperately want to believe.

Bohafsi is suppsedly also "reliable" whatever that means.

This can be a thread to prove or disprove their ability with proof please!
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What a waste of time. Just take what you read with a pinch of salt, you'll soon realise who the BS hitters are.
 
Andersons Dietician said:
Which ones?
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The Pogba transfer was one where he really led the way. From its very start with interest from Madrid http://gianlucadimarzio.com/it/juventus-incontro-real-raiola-per-pogba-dettagli

Until United registered their interest http://gianlucadimarzio.com/it/pogba-raiola-riavvicina-lo-united-lunedi-incontro-con-la-juventus

http://gianlucadimarzio.com/it/manc...-sognare-con-mou-e-pronta-unaltra-rivoluzione

And so on and so forth until the transfer was complete in August.
 
The guy was in the room for the Pogba negotiations.

I think.
 
I'll believe Di Marzio over any other English journalists who know nothing. Even if he mentioned a player and didn't come, that doesn't mean we weren't interested in him because things change in any deal.
 
Hamadovich86 said:
The Pogba transfer was one where he really led the way. From its very start with interest from Madrid http://gianlucadimarzio.com/it/juventus-incontro-real-raiola-per-pogba-dettagli

Until United registered their interest http://gianlucadimarzio.com/it/pogba-raiola-riavvicina-lo-united-lunedi-incontro-con-la-juventus

http://gianlucadimarzio.com/it/manc...-sognare-con-mou-e-pronta-unaltra-rivoluzione

And so on and so forth until the transfer was complete in August.
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Not to mention he had the granular levels of detail that other journalists lacked (or just references after he broke the details himself).. Such as the initial sum offered to Mkhitaryan, the agent fees holding up the Pogba deal, if I remember correctly did he also reference sponsorship differences delaying Jose coming to us? And then when Jose was set to sign Sky announced they are Clarifying his Jaguar vs Chevrolet dilemma before he can sign.
 
Di Marzio = Lord Varys

Luckhurst and co. = Grand Maester Pycelle
 
VP89 said:
Not to mention he had the granular levels of detail that other journalists lacked (or just references after he broke the details himself).. Such as the initial sum offered to Mkhitaryan, the agent fees holding up the Pogba deal, if I remember correctly did he also reference sponsorship differences delaying Jose coming to us? And then when Jose was set to sign Sky announced they are Clarifying his Jaguar vs Chevrolet dilemma before he can sign.
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Spot on. I also like the fact that he doesnt say a transfer is done until its actually done. Rarely does he ever say that and the deal doesnt go through. Hes also precise with the language he uses like when he says that a deal is agreed between player and club but not the selling club for example like the case is with Morata right now.
 
Andersons Dietician said:
Which ones?
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United related transfers he was on point with the whole Pogba saga. The Zlatan transfer is another he confirmed early while other outlets/journalists were suggesting he was going elsewhere and he was the first to break the Darmian transfer.
 
Hamadovich86 said:
The Pogba transfer was one where he really led the way. From its very start with interest from Madrid http://gianlucadimarzio.com/it/juventus-incontro-real-raiola-per-pogba-dettagli

Until United registered their interest http://gianlucadimarzio.com/it/pogba-raiola-riavvicina-lo-united-lunedi-incontro-con-la-juventus

http://gianlucadimarzio.com/it/manc...-sognare-con-mou-e-pronta-unaltra-rivoluzione

And so on and so forth until the transfer was complete in August.
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He was on point, but saying he broke news is a stretch. By the time we "registered our interest" in your link above the Pogba thread was 66 pages long (I actually went and checked it for you). Not exactly breaking news out of nowhere.

Mind you, I do appreciate he doesn't jump the gun, that's actually what makes him credible. Fed up with bullshit breaking news and exclusives.
 
I'm totally for making a move on Di Marzio or one of his minions. That way I could be this forums transfer goddess. Wonder if he's married...?
 
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