Yup.
A consequence of the football world being overly secretive and non-transparent /due to its dirtyness and greed) - no good sources, have to go with the greedy agents. Sure, you could become the mouthpiece of a club but that is similar levels of nasty.
Yes, Romano reported the Chelsea deal as sorted. Naylor and the club said no. 24h later Cucurella was a Chelsea player. Of course - if you really, really want to - that makes Romano wrong. Others, like me, knew that it was going to happen once the dull "here we go" was out there. If I understand...
Football news in Swedish, mainly about Eredivisie players (plenty of Swedes over there, especially back then).
Not fun, not well-paid, but interesting to get insight into how it all works. Interact far more with agents (and players) than with clubs. And the agents obviously usually do it to use...
We had this discussion in the Cucurella thread where you moved the goal posts; if Romano posted something, it was "guesses", and when Naylor posted the same thing a day later, it was the absolute truth uncovered by your hero, and Romano was merely lucky to have got it right the day before.
IMO...
Judging from other sources who confirmed most of what he was saying after he said it (like Man City making a bid), most appears to be correct. He never said it was a done deal between Brighton and City, always mentioning that Brighton had a higher value on the player than City wanted to bid...
It is modern journalism in a nutshell, caused by the era of PR and press officers.
Want to find out something about anything? You'll be told to talk to some guy with a long education in the art of saying nothing.
Either you have connections or you won't have any real information.
Naylor is...