Transfer News
How to read a transfer window without getting fooled
A practical guide to separating confirmed business, credible reporting and pure speculation during the transfer window.
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Three tiers of transfer information
- Confirmed — announced by the clubs involved.
- Reported — attributed to a named journalist with a track record.
- Speculation — aggregated, unsourced or algorithmically generated.
Questions worth asking
- Who benefits from this story being published today?
- Does the fee structure make sense against the club's accounts?
- Is there a squad-need argument, or only a name-recognition argument?
Our policy: we label rumour as rumour, every time.
What it means
Windows are noisy by design. Reading them well is mostly about resisting the urge to treat volume as evidence.
