Exactly, but only the Morata interest was allowed to be made public seriously, the Lukaku interest not so much. That's what I mean by smokescreens.
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Aye, this.
You also have to remember that Di Marzio's writer constantly caveats his tweets with things like "we do not cover the Premier League fulltime" -- most of the time he actually responds to rabid Manchester United fans to get them off his back a little.
All the journalists breaking the Lukaku deal at the same time his morning was a clear briefing from the club, and they all said we were now dropping the negotiations over Morata. You can't drop negotiations that didn't exist, and all Di Marzio said was that we were working on it, which is evidently true.
People see things in such black and white. If a journalist says we're in for someone and we then don't get him doesn't mean the journalist was wrong. He was only reporting on events at the time. No journalist can tell you 100% who will be signed not even the CEO or player can tell you until it's agreed. Look at Griezmann. The only thing they can report on is what is happening there and then and can take a guess as to who likely things are based on their intel on how far into the negotiating process the parties are in.
Spot on, but fans don't see it that way. The amount of abuse Graham Hunter got on Twitter when Thiago sauntered off to Bayern instead of us was pretty hefty.
Things change, minds change, other clubs get involved. Hell, we had Mikel being presented in a United shirt, and we never actually got him in the end. An incredibly rare occurrence, but an example of that United can literally sign a player, yet still not actually see that player play for United.
Is there any chance that this seriously is a smokescreen for morata????
Wasn't he the first one to speak up about Neymar & PSG? For a while I was wondering why he needed the clickbait content, turns out he was right. 
Yup he is officially the GOATWasn't he the first one to speak up about Neymar & PSG? For a while I was wondering why he needed the clickbait content, turns out he was right.
Brown Pleb is still better.
Did he piss in your Corn Flakes?
No, but he sure does crap out golden nuggets for the likes of you
Why don't you give some examples of what you're talking about, shouldn't be too difficult for you, should It?No, but he sure does crap out golden nuggets for the likes of you
Why anyone questions him is beyond me. Yes, he may occasionally get things wrong but that's because situations and outcomes can change. At the time of reporting I guarantee he's spot on with what he's saying. The poster making money off his insights is evidence of that.
Might have been the first tweet I saw on the Neymar saga but didn't he come out first about it?
Yeah said PSG were prepared to pay the clause or something along those lines.
He's normally a good source but I've seen him get things badly wrong aswell.
how early in the saga was that or did he jump on the bandwagon? If he was the source of that considering he kind of hung himself out to dry with such a claim where no-one thought it was legit or were at least highly sceptical that is some going to get that right.
http://gianlucadimarzio.com/en/psg-ready-to-pay-buyout-clause-barcelonas-neymar
17th July. Pretty sure he was the first to mention anything.
I think that due to the nature of transfers it's impossible to have a 10/10 record unless you only report after the fact.
Di Marzio's record is overwhelmingly positive considering how many he's gotten right and how often he's the first to report, also some of the transfers were monumental deals. He's also honest about his limitations often stating "we don't cover x 24/7" or "this was the last info/update on x at z date". From my perspective him/his team try to be transparent in a non bullshiting/let's fabricate/we need attention kind of way.
Overall I think he's the closest to a certainty, and like another poster said, I feel like when he reports something it's because there's genuinely something in it at the time of reporting. Dude deserves his recognition when put up against his peers.
He was the first one to claim we are going to be looking at a striker and not going to buy Griezmann when everybody was absolutely convinced he was coming. Turns out he was right on that too!
I think he was one of the fisrt to report this
He's decent but does have the tendency to fabricate things aswell.
Damn, seems like he has a French as well as an Italian connection!
I love how he riled up some cnuts this window, including that moron from MEN with his childish article full of 'fanboys' about Fabinho. Looks like Di Marzio wasn't wrong in that case either as it was later reported by Ducker or somebody from BBC (can't remember, it was pretty much a serie of tweets when Matić was signed) that we tried to get him but Monaco were very reluctant to discuss it with us.
Edit: Knew I saw it somewhere, it was Delaney who confirmed it.
Edit: Knew I saw it somewhere, it was Delaney who confirmed it.
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This.
Di Marzio and Bouhafsi are two journos who never fabricate things. You can accuse of them getting it wrong, but they never make up stories.
Forums Einsteins love writing sniding remarks and journos often deserve even more than that but Di Marzio is kind of a Wojnarowski for football transfers these days, no need to deny that.
Di Marzio tweeted that Juve will sign Andre Gomes to replace Pogba. Literally 5 mins later, Barca confirm the signing of Gomes.
Bouhafsi works for RMC, it is them that should be credited not Bouhafsi. If I was working for RMC, I'd get the same info as Bouhafsi.
That's surely not necessarily true. For instance, Daily Mail are a really bad paper in terms of reliability, but they have 2/3 really good journos that are reliable and I'm sure the same applies for RMC, as with other papers.
He didn't make it up. I think at that time, there were rumors that Juve were interested in Gomes. Quite believable too, considering Juve seem to be linked with every midfielder every summer. But it seems as though the source that tipped him off (presumably coming from Juve's side) was a bit late with the news.
Point is, he never makes up stories like Mirror or Sun.
Had it been one of the British Journos we wouldn't have heard the end of it on here.
RMC are on a different level to the mail regards reliability. You can't compare them with how things work in Britain.
Di Marzio, whoah
Di Marzio, whoah
He came from Italy
Nobody knew but he
(Volare)
Di Marzio, whoah
He came from Italy
Nobody knew but he
(Volare)
Wojnarowski is not really anything like football journalists, the information he passes on are basically always facts. He has great contacts and sources.
Although him & Boufhasi are certainly the best in the business. Neither are perfect and both get things wrong but I highly doubt they fabricate stories.
How did City manage to get both Mendy and Silva from them?
Chelsea got bakayoko as well.
Good point
I think that from the beginning they were talking about how important Fabinho is for them, that's the one thing. I suppose that Chelsea might have enquired about Bakayoko before we did for Fabinho or they knew about interest for both and decided they'd rather let Bakayoko go. Notice that they haven't sold Sidibe or Lemar either, it's like selling one from a position (fullback, midfielder, winger vel attacking player, shit knows what they do with Mbappe though). Plus there was rumoured interest in Fabinho from PSG, they could've fleeced them for like 60-70 mil Euros but they didn't, here you just don't know if they didn't want to sell to a direct rival.
I think that City and Chelsea got in early and straight up paid what Monaco wanted. We were fecking around bidding for Dier and missed the boat on Fabinho.
Having said that, I am very happy with Matic and if we get Aurier then it works out better than if we got Fabinho imo.