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[Football] Fabrizio Romano
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Romano again?! Here we go ……
medwayseagull reborn
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Orinoco ?
Mustafa II
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‘I work 20 hours a day’: Fabrizio Romano tells FourFourTwo how he became Mr Exclusive on transfers – and why he upset Brighton
Fabrizio Romano is a workaholic Italian transfer oracle who has changed the landscape of the market – and he took time from his hectic summer to speak to FFT about his crazy rise to fame
www.fourfourtwo.com
The Marc Cucurella deal was something unforgettable for me,” Romano says. “It was probably the best story of my life in terms of transfers.” Just like any other move, he announced that Brighton were to sell Cucurella to Chelsea and that a deal was imminent. Incredibly, the Seagulls put out a statement to deny it, referring to “inaccurate reports”. It threatened Romano’s reputation. “I still remember the feelings I had – it was like a rollercoaster,” he says.
“There were a lot of people attacking me, but I was 100 per cent sure of what I was saying and confident of my sources involved in this story.” Romano held his nerve and doubled down. He was vindicated when the move went through two days later; Chelsea even made a coded allusion to Brighton’s denial. “It was honestly the best moment of my career,” the Italian explains. “For the first time, I felt that something was happening with me about the transfer – not just the reporting of it but having a big social media impact.”
It’s not always a nice impact. Romano does his due diligence, behaves respectfully on social media and credits other writers who break stories first. But with such prominence in the world of sports journalism, he is a target for a deluge of abuse. “I understand criticism and I find it positive,” he says calmly. “It can help you to understand where you are wrong. But it’s on one condition: I only want to hear this criticism from real people showing their face, or at least their name.”
Romano has even phoned back trolls in the past to discuss what they’ve said about him. “I feel there should be some kind of respect,” he tells FFT. “It’s really important to have respect. It’s very easy to say these things on Twitter, but I’m sure they would never do that if we met on the street.”
Green Cross Code Man
Wunt be druv
Still dislike him for mostly regurgitating the same old stuff for the $$$.‘I work 20 hours a day’: Fabrizio Romano tells FourFourTwo how he became Mr Exclusive on transfers – and why he upset Brighton
Fabrizio Romano is a workaholic Italian transfer oracle who has changed the landscape of the market – and he took time from his hectic summer to speak to FFT about his crazy rise to fame
The Marc Cucurella deal was something unforgettable for me,” Romano says. “It was probably the best story of my life in terms of transfers.” Just like any other move, he announced that Brighton were to sell Cucurella to Chelsea and that a deal was imminent. Incredibly, the Seagulls put out a statement to deny it, referring to “inaccurate reports”. It threatened Romano’s reputation. “I still remember the feelings I had – it was like a rollercoaster,” he says.
“There were a lot of people attacking me, but I was 100 per cent sure of what I was saying and confident of my sources involved in this story.” Romano held his nerve and doubled down. He was vindicated when the move went through two days later; Chelsea even made a coded allusion to Brighton’s denial. “It was honestly the best moment of my career,” the Italian explains. “For the first time, I felt that something was happening with me about the transfer – not just the reporting of it but having a big social media impact.”
It’s not always a nice impact. Romano does his due diligence, behaves respectfully on social media and credits other writers who break stories first. But with such prominence in the world of sports journalism, he is a target for a deluge of abuse. “I understand criticism and I find it positive,” he says calmly. “It can help you to understand where you are wrong. But it’s on one condition: I only want to hear this criticism from real people showing their face, or at least their name.”
Romano has even phoned back trolls in the past to discuss what they’ve said about him. “I feel there should be some kind of respect,” he tells FFT. “It’s really important to have respect. It’s very easy to say these things on Twitter, but I’m sure they would never do that if we met on the street.”
Icy Gull
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All that says to me is that Chelsea feed him info, the Caicedo affair just backs it up. Of course no money will have changed hands‘I work 20 hours a day’: Fabrizio Romano tells FourFourTwo how he became Mr Exclusive on transfers – and why he upset Brighton
Fabrizio Romano is a workaholic Italian transfer oracle who has changed the landscape of the market – and he took time from his hectic summer to speak to FFT about his crazy rise to fame
The Marc Cucurella deal was something unforgettable for me,” Romano says. “It was probably the best story of my life in terms of transfers.” Just like any other move, he announced that Brighton were to sell Cucurella to Chelsea and that a deal was imminent. Incredibly, the Seagulls put out a statement to deny it, referring to “inaccurate reports”. It threatened Romano’s reputation. “I still remember the feelings I had – it was like a rollercoaster,” he says.
“There were a lot of people attacking me, but I was 100 per cent sure of what I was saying and confident of my sources involved in this story.” Romano held his nerve and doubled down. He was vindicated when the move went through two days later; Chelsea even made a coded allusion to Brighton’s denial. “It was honestly the best moment of my career,” the Italian explains. “For the first time, I felt that something was happening with me about the transfer – not just the reporting of it but having a big social media impact.”
It’s not always a nice impact. Romano does his due diligence, behaves respectfully on social media and credits other writers who break stories first. But with such prominence in the world of sports journalism, he is a target for a deluge of abuse. “I understand criticism and I find it positive,” he says calmly. “It can help you to understand where you are wrong. But it’s on one condition: I only want to hear this criticism from real people showing their face, or at least their name.”
Romano has even phoned back trolls in the past to discuss what they’ve said about him. “I feel there should be some kind of respect,” he tells FFT. “It’s really important to have respect. It’s very easy to say these things on Twitter, but I’m sure they would never do that if we met on the street.”
He is not wrong about Twitter but live by the sword…
banjo
GOSBTS
Must be hard coming up with enough bullshit for 20 hours a day.
Mustafa II
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To be fair to him, he played a big part in us rinsing Chelsea for astronomical fees for Cucurella & Caicedo.
Whatever you think of him, he may well have made our club tens of millions of quid more than if he hadn't got involved.
Whatever you think of him, he may well have made our club tens of millions of quid more than if he hadn't got involved.
Green Cross Code Man
Wunt be druv
That may well be true or not who knows, but if it is it only proves what an amateur recruitment setup they possess.
Edit: Chelsea I mean, as the poster below stated no way are Bloom and Barber taking any notice.
Whitechapel
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No he didn’t. You think Bloom is influenced by Romano?
Pevenseagull
meh
- Jul 20, 2003
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I notice he glossed over the two months before the Chelsea move where he was pumping out left, right and centre Cucurella was imminently joining City.
The epitome of everything wrong with modern football.
The epitome of everything wrong with modern football.
In as nice a way of possible of posting, what a load of crap. If you think he has that sort of influence you're mad. Indeed the likes of this entity is likely to make decent clubs walk away from deals. Brighton do their business out of the limelight so when leeches start tweeting this stuff it is likely Bloom and Barber will double down on their stance.
It highlights walls have ears and will alter the way Brighton will allow things to be made public.
He neither made Brighton accept or decline an offer.
All he does is feed the armchair plastics.
The only influence he has is to allow normal supporters of normal clubs to re-enforce their hatred for the likes of Chelsea
beorhthelm
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- Jul 21, 2003
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The epitome of throwing enough mud at the wall until something sticks. Link every top player to every big club and eventually something will come off.
willalbion
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That’s a good point.