He has a very high success rate while reporting things that sometimes haven't been reported before. It is no coincidence that he's freelancing for a bunch of the worlds biggest media corporations. If you read one rumour written by a random The Sun journo and then one from Romano, the latter is...
Bloke is reporting news. If someone wants to buy a player or Alexis dad says something, and Romano writes about it... it really isn't him being a ****, its him reporting things.
If someone kills someone and a journalist writes about it, the problem isn't really the journalist but the murderer.
Yeah I was thinking £100m as "a bit more" than £80m.
PB on that podcast seemed to indicate it was quite a bit about the timing (wanting to finish in a club record position & not wanting to negotiate for a new player when everyone know you've just received big money).
I don't think the main reason for turning down that bid was that the money was bad (though I reckon it will take a bit more than £80m), but that the timing was no good. Easier to buy a replacement in the summer window.