He's great to follow on twitter. When he write something on transfers it's correct.
Fabrizio Romano
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Not true.No. Just unfollow him and he's gone from your life. Bigger/worse things to "hate" than Fabrizio Romano
Agree.
He and Ornstein are the closest thing to gospel in the transfer business.
Of course not everything he reports will turn out to be correct as there will always be changes or mind from clubs or players.
Much rather listen to him than Ben Jacobs who comes in every network he can, regurgitating what he gets from Romano or Ornstein.
Same. He does my head in with some of the blatant PR he does and with the repeating of the same info but I’m not on X (I follow him via other social media) so it does give a useful one-stop shop for what’s going on in the transfer world.
On the Saudi payroll.
Wonderful video ! Thank you King Salman for everything !
Pretty brave to let the comments section open
Pretty brave to let the comments section open
Never heard of him
Still great for transfer news minutes before it's on the clubs' official websites though.
Not surprised.
Can you imagine a world withoutlawyers journalists?
Can you imagine a world without
I don't know. Without journalists what would we have to inform us? Nutters on Twitter and government approved statements?Not surprised.
Can you imagine a world withoutlawyersjournalists?
Doesn't sound great.
He's not a journalist, though.Not surprised.
Can you imagine a world withoutlawyersjournalists?
Can't believe anyone finds any value in what he does. He's a waste of skin.
We were fine when the rumours were in newspapers and you knew when clubs signed someone on the news or through them. There are some really good journalists out there but also alot of people engagement farming.
Go and see who owns your favourite mainstream media.
No matter which, it's owned by someone with their own interests at heart.
This guy isn't a journalist he's a content creator. Reports on absolutely every transfer story and 'confirms' them usually immediately after an actual journalist does. The Venn diagram of those that think this man is an actual journalist with real contacts in every single transfer that happens between every single club in North America, Europe, Asia and beyond and those that think Jim Carey was cloned- is a perfect, solid circle.
"Wow isn't it incredible that no matter what two clubs are involved, no matter what player it is, this guy has the inside scoop on everything that goes on?" - Yes. It literally is.
Key Publications
- The Guardian: Romano has been a long-time contributor to the The Guardian's Football Section, where he frequently wrote detailed articles on major European transfer stories and provided "inside stories" on record-breaking transfer windows.
- Sky Sport Italy: He joined Sky Sport Italy in 2012, working under the mentorship of Gianluca Di Marzio. During his tenure, he wrote for their digital platforms and helped build their transfer reporting presence.
- CBS Sports: He has served as a transfer insider for CBS Sports, writing columns and appearing as an analyst for their football coverage, particularly around the Champions League.
- Calciomercato.com: Early in his career, he wrote for various Italian outlets, including Calciomercato, a prominent site dedicated to transfer news.
None of that explains how he pretends to have the inside scoop on literally every single transfer that happens. It isn't an opinion to say that is not possible. Yet every transfer that happens he posts 'news', completely uncredited so passes every bit of information off as his own. Are you not even slightly suspicious? How do you suppose he sleeps if he really is talking to hundreds of agents multiple times a day about the hundreds of transfer stories he posts on?
It would be like if the BBC correspondent gave a piece to camera from Gaza then when the next story changes to the rainforest destruction in South America, they popped up there too. Then the next story about financial markets in Berlin - there they were. Pretending to be all over every single story breaking in the world, claiming their own sources on absolutely everything. It's completely unrealistic to think any of that can be true and yet "He worked for CBS so he literally spends his entire life talking to everyone about every transfer story ever" - suddenly makes sense?
He farms what's been reported, re-words and then passes information off as his own. And it works well for him. But there's a level of incredible naivety involved in thinking what he actually does is constantly have 9 concurrent conversations at once with the agents of players from all four corners of the earth so if a player moves from Argentina to Spain, England to France or Moldova to Outer Mongolia he can Tweet an exclusive about it.
There's a reason why he posts 500 Tweets a day. It's difficult to prove him wrong if you can't find the Tweets of him being wrong. Again nothing bad about that, it works great for him. But let's call it what it is.
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I pity those who hang onto Romano's every post as though it were "you heard it here first!" truth.
Unfortunately seems quite a few still sit on the 'he aggregates it all in once place, nice guy, haters gonna hate ' side instead of the 'ethical shill who would without hesitation profit from your barely cold corpse' side
Those are the people who think they're better than the former group and then go look for tweets of ethical journalists on the exact site of the richest guy in the world who would without hesitation also profit from their barely cold corpse.
About to post this. He is nothing more than an engagement farmer. Why clubs would want to pass him details of transfers, I will never know. Whilst proper journalists are getting credible sources for their stories, this Cnut is pretending to be one.
"The Italian "influencer" who has never worked as a real journalist, has 100m+ followers on social media"
It takes only a cursory glance at the comments under his social media posts to also see that most of his "followers" are actually bots/bought.
On the Saudi gravy train. I wish I was.