Key to being a 'reliable source' on Twitter

[0le]

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You seem far too bothered about it. Whatever you think of him, he isn't committing a crime and it is very easy to ignore him.

 

[stw2022]

You seem far too bothered about it. Whatever you think of him, he isn't committing a crime and it is very easy to ignore him.

I’m not bothered by him at all I just think it’s ridiculous so many people appear to be taken in by it.

even if I was bothered by it why are you bothered by me being bothered by it if your threshold is that unless something is a crime it shouldn’t bother you. Last time I checked you couldn’t do a life sentence for pointing out bullshit

 

[stw2022]

The guy who runs the @utdreport should stop Crediting the journalist or news organisation with every tweet and simply pretend they rival this guy as being the worlds most implausibly connected football journalist

 

[do.ob]

Actually, there was an interview with Romano in my Dutch newspaper in April (link, but in Dutch and paywalled). In fact, they first interviewed a Dutch guy who is only focused on PSV-related news. That's pretty small in scope, but the guy has a hectic full-time job of it, and has built up a large network in the 11 years he's been doing this. Among other things they mention, they explain how transfer hunters are used by players, clubs, and their representatives, both to launch true stories and rumours - whatever any of them think will be in the advantage of a club or player during negotiations.

The final bit is about Fabrizio Romano. During the season, he is apparently constantly travelling all through Europe to maintain and establish his contacts with players, agents, club officials, and others. Then during the transfer period, he is essentially working 24/7, calling and apping and whatever else to get and validate news that he can spread.. He basically can't (and doesn't) take a break, because any rumour can arrive at any time, and then he instantly has to start fact-checking it to be able to spread the news before his competition does.

As for how he got there - in 2009, he had a small website, and was contacted by the representative of Icardi about a transfer (to Sampdoria, and later to Inter). Romano was the first to break that, which established his name a little. He then spent a few years around Milan, trying to be at all the important places so he could talk to people, find out about rumours, and break them. That's how became a specialist in Italian transfers, and then he gradually start expanding his work to other leagues as well.

Finally, he says he does some sponsorships but not a lot (he considers himself a journalist, not an influencer), and that he tries hard not to be used by agents and directors, difficult and confrontational as that may be sometimes.

Given your obsession with Romano, I thought you'd be interest in some actual information instead of all the assumptions in this thread. There's more details if you're interested.

So this Dutch guy says that he dedicates his entire (work) life to being able to cover one club. And then in the next paragraph he's like "oh yeah, that Romano guy, he does what I'm doing, but for like 50 clubs across continents."?

It seems obvious that Romano is at least partially bullshitting - e.g. you can't get much more proof than that, can you? So it seems pretty safe to assume that someone who works day and night in the same business is aware of this. If he claims that it's all 100% hard work anyway then it doesn't exactly look like he's giving his unbiased opinion.

Also going by the thumbnail preview from his youtube videos Romano seems to be uploading from the same room almost daily.

 

[lsd]

Why does the CAF have such a hard-on for this guy? Plenty times I see posters "calling him out" yet when it's good news he's back in the good books yes? I'm assuming that's how it works yes?

Then they would have to admit they were wrong and they can't do that.

There are so many cases where he has clearly copied other peoples tweets and so many cases where he has guessed and been totally wrong yet his followers somehow cannot accept he is a total bluffer.

Therefore they fabricate this nonsence he works 50 hours a day has all these contacts in every corner of the world infiltrating every club to give him the information he invariably posts 15 minutes after someone else breaks the story

 

[UnitedSofa]

Then they would have to admit they were wrong and they can't do that.

There are so many cases where he has clearly copied other peoples tweets and so many cases where he has guessed and been totally wrong yet his followers somehow cannot accept he is a total bluffer.

Therefore they fabricate this nonsence he works 50 hours a day has all these contacts in every corner of the world infiltrating every club to give him the information he invariably posts 15 minutes after someone else breaks the story

How do you know he doesn’t?

 

[Cheimoon]

So this Dutch guy says that he dedicates his entire (work) life to being able to cover one club. And then in the next paragraph he's like "oh yeah, that Romano guy, he does what I'm doing, but for like 50 clubs across continents."?

It seems obvious that Romano is at least partially bullshitting - e.g. you can't get much more proof than that, can you? So it seems pretty safe to assume that someone who works day and night in the same business is aware of this. If he claims that it's all 100% hard work anyway then it doesn't exactly look like he's giving his unbiased opinion.

Also going by the thumbnail preview from his youtube videos Romano seems to be uploading from the same room almost daily.

Yeah, it does seem a little much. But then that Dutch guy actually does have a family life (or so he says; it's just interrupted often); it's not quite the same level of craziness.

 

[stw2022]

There’s nothing wrong with what he does. He isn’t an elected official. But what he does is obvious and it isn’t being the most connected journalist in the entire world on any subject. Having that breadth and depth of knowledge to literally be the other end of the phone of ever major (and most minor) transfers that happen that span the entire continent and beyond is not possible.

It speaks to the near cult-like following he has that people even try to argue differently.

And he rarely/ever credits or cites any other source so is presumably claiming credit for gathering and sourcing the information himself. Honestly at some point people have to accept they’re the target audience for magic bean salesmen

Didn’t that Tancredi guy work for Sky Italia too? The “boom” twat who used to also pretend he was your font of all the world’s transfer knowledge before the pandemic hit and everyone’s sense of gullibility rose? Because I think he was viewed far more sceptically.

Maybe there’s a bullshit farm at Sky Italia. An academy?

 

[Acole9]

I don't mind Romano. It's the ITK types that make me laugh. Especially that United Muppetiers, they've been dining out on one piece of info they got on a sleeve sponsor. They know just about as much as the rest of us when it comes to transfers.

Why would some American college kids have inside info on United? Just doesn't ring true.

 

[do.ob]

I don't mind Romano. It's the ITK types that make me laugh. Especially that United Muppetiers, they've been dining out on one piece of info they got on a sleeve sponsor. They know just about as much as the rest of us when it comes to transfers.

Why would some American college kids have inside info on United? Just doesn't ring true.

If you watch the reddit post I have linked it appears that Romano detailed the process of Solskjaer's sacking weeks before it actually happened and accidentally released it early.

So I'm tempted to ask: how different from the is he really and how much is just him being smarter.