Fabrizio Romano

reelworld said:
I have much less issue with Romano spamming twitter with rewording transfer rumors than with the fact he's clearly being paid to rehab Greenwood image
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I tend to agree, though it's been pretty obvious that he will take a cheque for pretty much anything. He is in a somewhat unique position as he's not a traditional journalist but lives on social media, so it's not like he has an employer paying his salary.

It's a business model that works for him and he is effectively a single source of truth for near enough every transfer.
 
Give me Ornstein over this chancer any day of the week.

His only concern is popping up in your social feeds as much as humanly possible, its why we constantly hear these non-updates seemingly every hour about our negotiations with Ugarte and the like being at 'VERY ADVANCED STAGE, PROGRESSING WELL'. The Greenwood and Chelsea PR is just the added cherry to the grift cake.

There are plenty of tier 1 reliable journos who convey updates when they're genuinely new breakthroughs. Being able to filter out his noise wouldn't make you any less privy to what's happening in the transfer world.
 
saivet said:
I tend to agree, though it's been pretty obvious that he will take a cheque for pretty much anything. He is in a somewhat unique position as he's not a traditional journalist but lives on social media, so it's not like he has an employer paying his salary.

It's a business model that works for him and he is effectively a single source of truth for near enough every transfer.
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Yeah. Most likely, all of those pro sport journalist in some way getting financial gain from interest parties.

I don't know why people would think otherwise.
 
In Absentia said:
I just did, and in it you admitted searching his tweets for “Chelsea very happy” or whatever.

Why shouldn’t he take money from agents or whoever? The info is still good, and he’s a freelancer, not a public servant.
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Is the info good? If Andrey Santos is training like shit, his agent uses Romano to hype him with PR for a few months and potentially as a result Santos gets another loan move shortly after despite probably not deserving it. It's a misrepresentation and inflation of assets. If he openly said he's spoken to the agent and the agent told him X Y Z then at least there's some transparency there.
 
ROFLUTION said:
That's fair enough - I think there should be a paid advertising-disclaimer on such by law like in Denmark. Don't get how all these influencers can get away with it. Fair enough if he takes money for it, but it should be disclaimed imo.

But on the point of him reporting actual transfers, I haven't seen a lot to say he's not credible in those. Both can be true.
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Yep I've never denied he has excellent sources in places and his transfer news is more accurate than not. It's never been my issue with him.
 
I'd also add, my last point on this :lol: He is one of the biggest contributors to the over-saturation of transfer sagas. By the time a player signs these days there's no excitement about seeing the player in the kit because they've been photoshopped in it from the second they were linked, there's been a million updates with very little new info over those weeks and you're just generally a bit tired of the whole thing before it's even official.

And yes I could unfollow him but that would allow someone else to take my crown as biggest hater and I will not have that.
 
Isotope said:
Yeah. Most likely, all of those pro sport journalist in some way getting financial gain from interest parties.

I don't know why people would think otherwise.
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Makes it all the more impressive that Ornstein gets even better exclusives and doesn't even have to s.imp for that agent's clients for the next month in return.
 
I've always assumed the number of Tweets he posts about the same topic is both for engagement purposes and also to make it easier to hide his misfires.

If he got something wrong yesterday who is going to find it 168 Tweets down, buried on his timeline?
 
Solius said:
Is the info good? If Andrey Santos is training like shit, his agent uses Romano to hype him with PR for a few months and potentially as a result Santos gets another loan move shortly after despite probably not deserving it. It's a misrepresentation and inflation of assets. If he openly said he's spoken to the agent and the agent told him X Y Z then at least there's some transparency there.
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To be fair, he went on loan to Strasbourg, who are owned by Clearlake.

I agree with you generally about Romano, but I think you're attributing a bit too much power to him here.
 
Isotope said:
Yeah. Most likely, all of those pro sport journalist in some way getting financial gain from interest parties.

I don't know why people would think otherwise.
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The gain journalists get from info is that they get to publish it, which enables them to write articles and tweets, which earns them money.

What Romano is doing is completely different (he does that too, of course, on top of his ad work).
 
ROFLUTION said:
Not that I care about a subreddit - but that does seem to cause some unrest among the comments. And I understand them. Overall he's reliable on transfers and the biggest around - sounds weird if we were all to not trust his transfer-tweets, because he might be a bit commercial with other stuff like Greenwood.
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I think its more of an issue around his reliability and trustability. If he’s deleting tweets he got wrong, posting ‘exclusives’ that aren’t exclusives and soliciting clubs for news then he’s essentially sold out and unreliable. The unfortunate nature of his line of work is that once you outed as someone who is taking money to write favourable tweets about a club or player you can no longer be trusted.
 
HTG said:
The commercial stuff with Greenwood is the opposite of being reliable. That’s more than enough reason to cast doubt over his general reporting and an absolute no go for anyone even close to being a journalist. That’s not being a bit commercial. It’s proof that he lacks professional ethics and can’t be relied upon.
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This makes no sense to me.

Whenever he says Here we go it’s measurable. You can easily over time check and tell if he’s credible and the transfer goes theough or not. A paid story about a footballer doesn’t make his transfer news with “here we go” non-measurable.

If/when he gets a lot of here we go’s wrong then fair enough, but the guy is the biggest out there - a tiny margin of error should be accepted.
 
ROFLUTION said:
This makes no sense to me.

Whenever he says Here we go it’s measurable. You can easily over time check and tell if he’s credible and the transfer goes theough or not. A paid story about a footballer doesn’t make his transfer news with “here we go” non-measurable.

If/when he gets a lot of here we go’s wrong then fair enough, but the guy is the biggest out there - a tiny margin of error should be accepted.
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It is not an error. That’s the point. He purposely presents paid content as news, without labelling it as such. That’s not being wrong about something. That’s selling out. It’s about the worst thing a journalist could do. It casts doubt upon everything he reports. That is completely unacceptable.

And others have stated before, that he also deletes tweets that turn out wrong, without another comment. That’s also a complete no go for any journalist there is. Getting a story wrong is one thing. But refusing to set things right and correct one’s mistake is about the worst thing a journalist can do. It’s terribly unethical behaviour.
That shouldn’t be accepted by anyone. The fact that we even have to discuss this amazes me.
 
ROFLUTION said:
Not that I care about a subreddit - but that does seem to cause some unrest among the comments. And I understand them. Overall he's reliable on transfers and the biggest around - sounds weird if we were all to not trust his transfer-tweets, because he might be a bit commercial with other stuff like Greenwood.
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I think it is a bit of emotional thing on reddit and over here. People who were quite obsessed with him and thought of him as a hero, may feel more hurt when he is taking money to put some tweets or is quoting journos without giving any credit.

People who have always seen him as a news aggregator kind of guy may not be much hurt.

But I do agree that his reliability gets lesser if he is taking money from agents and clubs to write good stuff for them. Unless he puts out a note saying it is a paid promotion.
 
HTG said:
It is not an error. That’s the point. He purposely presents paid content as news, without labelling it as such. That’s not being wrong about something. That’s selling out. It’s about the worst thing a journalist could do. It casts doubt upon everything he reports. That is completely unacceptable.

And others have stated before, that he also deletes tweets that turn out wrong, without another comment. That’s also a complete no go for any journalist there is. Getting a story wrong is one thing. But refusing to set things right and correct one’s mistake is about the worst thing a journalist can do. It’s terribly unethical behaviour.
That shouldn’t be accepted by anyone. The fact that we even have to discuss this amazes me.
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How much has this happened though? Are we talking 1-2 times among a 3000 x Here we go's? Give me examples
 
Solius said:
Makes it all the more impressive that Ornstein gets even better exclusives and doesn't even have to s.imp for that agent's clients for the next month in return.
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NotThatSoph said:
The gain journalists get from info is that they get to publish it, which enables them to write articles and tweets, which earns them money.

What Romano is doing is completely different (he does that too, of course, on top of his ad work).
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I always get the impression that all these "top" sport journalists are the mouthpiece of agents or some Clubs, and in most cases they get paid by them. Especially the freelance ones, like Romano.

Probably it's just my defensive mechanism to never take their tweets seriously, but all for fun. Just like the Caf Transfer Threads.

But i agreed that these journalists still need to be accountable for shouting shits on public platform.
 
Solius said:
Ben Jacobs is another one. He's quite clearly on the Chelsea PR and has been for a while now. I think even the Chelsea fans acknowledge that one.

I just really think it lacks journalistic integrity but others might disagree.
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Blatant Chelsea PR :lol:

 
Doesn't even feel like Chelsea spent 200m already, because they didn't get anyone good
 
Jacobs is even more smug looking Matterface. You couldn't mock up a pair of annoying looking pricks if you tried.
 
Posh Red said:
To be fair that’s quite a positive way of presenting Chelsea’s business for the window, is it not?
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It’s very positive. It’s something I would post on the caf. I was just providing a clear example of @Solius point about him being a blatant mouthpiece for Clearlake.
 
To those who said he did nothing wrong when he posted his ”exclusives” after a smaller account had already published the news, it seems that Romano disagrees with you.

He once again first claimed that his Chido Obi news was exclusive, but has now edited his tweet and finally credited AS who’s been ahead of him in this ”saga” throughout.

 



The full quote was this.

"Misha played from the start against Wolves. They all want to play from the start, but sometimes it's not possible. Misha did very well against Barrow last week. Hopefully Micha can do a good game tomorrow.

"And it's not just him. It's the same for Nkunku, who was signed as a big player and in this moment is not starting in the Premier League. But in football things can change quickly. Right now the situation is this, but it doesn't mean it will be the same all season. The only thing we ask is if we give [players] five or ten minutes, or half-an-hour, they show us what they can do.

"I don't think with Misha it's a lack of confidence. It's Misha, and he needs to improve some things. But we are happy with the way he is working."
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Not only is the "big player and at the moment he’s not playing in the PL" bit not even about Mudryk, it was about Nkunku, he’s also chopped and changed the quotes, and put random quotes from different parts of the press conference together that don’t belong together to present something Maresca never said.

Very shoddy work, at best.
 
Look at his timeline right now and it's all stats from across various CL games, Jhon Duran's minutes per goal, Mo Salah's g+a etc, etc. It's stats, post match quotes, of course the collated transfer talk...is there any evidence that he has ever actually watched a full, consecutive 90 minutes of football?
 
Solius said:
Hyping up Greenwood relentlessly. Clearly on the payroll. I will not rest until everyone else sees him for the morally bankrupt hack that he is.
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Does everyone hate him yet?

Are you not sick of the constant PR laden 'news' he breaks?
 
Solius said:
Does everyone hate him yet?

Are you not sick of the constant PR laden 'news' he breaks?
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I unfollowed him long time ago, he is really not that important, you shouldn't care about him Sol.
 
Amar__ said:
I unfollowed him long time ago, he is really not that important, you shouldn't care about him Sol.
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I don't even use Twitter anymore but it's just him and that Saudi shill Ben Jacobs in 90% of the Transfer Tweets posted on here.
 
Solius said:
Does everyone hate him yet?

Are you not sick of the constant PR laden 'news' he breaks?
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No. Just unfollow him and he's gone from your life. Bigger/worse things to "hate" than Fabrizio Romano :lol:
 
Wonder Pigeon said:
I still don't believe that he watches or likes football.
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I really doubt he watches it much, not really all that important to his actual line of work so I can imagine his time is invested elsewhere.
 
I just follow him as it is easier than following 25 other accounts. He rarely has any true exclusives but he does round up what everyone else is reporting so it is a decent way to get all the transfer gossip in one place. If you listen to his interview on "The Rest Is Football" he comes across quite well, seems a nice enough guy and he definitely does love football. He just got lucky like a lot of people do with social media by being the guy to find a niche and playing it for all it is worth. I think most of us posting here would love to be in his position, a fan who basically got to make his passion his job and a very well paid job at that.
 
Think the hatred he gets is OTT, some forget that he doesnt work for a paper anymore and he is more about quantity and quality. It's not such a big deal.

Ornstein has more exclusives, probably stronger links but also posts way less and reports on far less than Fabrizio does.

Boo-hoo.
 
Him having 20m or however many followers and a fecking catchphrase is really telling about the shocking level of football journalism.

Tbf he does seem to only post something definitive when he has confirmation but that should be the absolute minimum of a football journalist.
 
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Solius said:
I don't even use Twitter anymore but it's just him and that Saudi shill Ben Jacobs in 90% of the Transfer Tweets posted on here.
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Which is a huge improvement over what we had before. The whole transfer market news cycle was a carousel of random “ITKs” posting made up shit on Twitter.
 
I started ignoring Romano about a year ago and have no regrets about missing out on his commentary. I wish him well, but he's a waste of time.
 
AjaxCunian said:
Think the hatred he gets is OTT, some forget that he doesnt work for a paper anymore and he is more about quantity and quality. It's not such a big deal.

Ornstein has more exclusives, probably stronger links but also posts way less and reports on far less than Fabrizio does.

Boo-hoo.
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It's so weird how worked up people get by him. There is a constant need to slate him and talk down on him when it is very easy to just ignore him. I really don't get why people care so much.

Reading a tweet about transfers, etc should not illicit such reactions simply based on the person tweeting as opposed to the actual content.
 
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