His sources are one-sided and are written entirely from the perspective of the player and his agent. He exclusively confirmed Cucurella was set to sign for Manchester City (he didn’t and was never close), that we’d accepted an offer for Caicedo in January (we hadn’t), and is constantly citing transfer values he has no possible way of knowing.
For example the other day he said Brighton are expecting £50-60m for Mac Allister, but that talks hadn't started yet. There is so much wrong with this.
First of all, the club never tells other clubs or agents what their asking price is. Paul Barber has outlined this numerous times in interviews and fan forums. They simply reject offers until they get an acceptable one according to their own valuation of the player’s worth to the club.
Examples include Ben White (rejected £30m from Leeds, sold to Arsenal for £50m), Marc Cucurella (rejected £35m from Manchester City, sold to Chelsea for £63m) and Caicedo (rejected £70m from Arsenal… selling price TBC, but it will be at least equal and likely more).
He embellishes and outright makes up details he has no information on, based on his brief from agents about the message they want made public.
He is like a psychic doing a warm read; he has some information but not all, and uses common sense to fill gaps by making obvious estimates on things like transfer values. Psychics have “hits” for good guesses and “misses” for bad ones.
Romano’s, Law’s and Ornstein’s miss to hit ratio is absolutely shocking, because they only ever have part of the picture and the clubs themselves aren’t talking.