Fabrizio Romano

VP89 said:
Romano is a micro reporter. Minor tid bits of news has long been his forte. Again, Romano has not endorsed nor shared any opinion. Hes sharing news.

As a free lance journalist who has a unique business model, this sort of micro update is all part of his game. It has feck all to do with Greenwood. The tweeter knows this too, she's just trying to virtue signal to get her platform out.
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How is reposting Greenwood's reveal video sharing news? Again, with zero context around the entire situation.

He's using an alleged abuser to farm for engagement which is pretty shitty when you look at how many followers he has, especially considering a lot of them will be young men. It's just normalising abuse
 
Mogget said:
How is reposting Greenwood's reveal video sharing news? Again, with zero context around the entire situation.

He's using an alleged abuser to farm for engagement which is pretty shitty when you look at how many followers he has, especially considering a lot of them will be young men. It's just normalising abuse
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He does this often for fecksake. It's his twitter profile.
Here is him sharing a historic moment in MLS


Here is him sharing a vid of Maradonna and Pele:


And on that - where is the outrage toward Maradonna? A serial woman abuser? Did the influencer speak out against that? No because no one gives a feck with him. Be consistent or feck off, he didn't give an opinion - he shared a video of a player unveiling. He tends to share news that's already out there on twitter, along with giving news of his own. It's his brand, there's nothing else to it.
 
Romano posting/retweeting video is him endorsing abuser and normalizing abuse?

Using the same logic, anyone who said a good word about Suarez, John Terry are endorsing Racism?

FFS, he is just a journalist who posted news, just like how other major UK media journalists posted, like Ducker, Simon Stone, Athletic and all.
 
tomaldinho1 said:
The sad thing is if you're a journalist you will cover greenwood more now he's a person of controversy, it's a perfect storm for them because you are guaranteed loads of interactions around your tweet. For example, imagine greenwood scores a goal on his debut, you immediately just post something like 'United fans must be seething right now' and you rile up a huge fanbase with internal divides + get all the people invested in this case bombing in with their opinions + the twitter bots.
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Yeah, any journalist reporting anything on him will get lot of interactions. Anytime he scores a goal, it will be unbearable on social media.
 
roonster09 said:
Yeah, any journalist reporting anything on him will get lot of interactions. Anytime he scores a goal, it will be unbearable on social media.
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Genuinely might just start a twitter account called 'Guiri en Getafe' and post a load of Greenwood stories with caps lock on and emojis everywhere, will have my retirement money in a year.
 
VP89 said:
He does this often for fecksake. It's his twitter profile.
Here is him sharing a historic moment in MLS


Here is him sharing a vid of Maradonna and Pele:


And on that - where is the outrage toward Maradonna? A serial woman abuser? Did the influencer speak out against that? No because no one gives a feck with him. Be consistent or feck off, he didn't give an opinion - he shared a video of a player unveiling. He tends to share news that's already out there on twitter, along with giving news of his own. It's his brand, there's nothing else to it.
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So you're not allowed to criticise an alleged abuser unless you criticise all abusers?

Moving away from the last couple of pages in this thread, I think it really does sum up where society is that someone whose brand is mostly reposting random videos and stealing scoops from smaller journalists is held up as some paragon of journalism with over 15m followers. Let's be real, he's not a journalist, he's an influencer.
 
Mogget said:
So you're not allowed to criticise an alleged abuser unless you criticise all abusers?

Moving away from the last couple of pages in this thread, I think it really does sum up where society is that someone whose brand is mostly reposting random videos and stealing scoops from smaller journalists is held up as some paragon of journalism with over 15m followers. Let's be real, he's not a journalist, he's an influencer.
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You can criticize an alleged abuser all you want.

Romano however has not abused anyone. He shared a fecking video of his unveiling which is not against the norm. Influencers are trying to leverage his platform to better theirs with virtue signalling.
 
VP89 said:
Hes celebrated nothing. Hes reported a big transfer. Any man utd player leaving the club is going to get attention.

She's got no point. If she's angry that a club went in for him that's another point. But event hat is not Romano fault.
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Depends on the hat. If it's really ugly and doesn't fit the event at all?
 
VP89 said:
She's not making any point. Romano is posting news about a player unveiled at Getafe.

She can't get annoyed at a journalist doing their job.
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Romano posted what he did to retain relationships. He posts what agents and clubs ask him to. That’s literally the majority of his job. If he doesn’t, he loses access.
 
Mogget said:
How is reposting Greenwood's reveal video sharing news? Again, with zero context around the entire situation.

He's using an alleged abuser to farm for engagement which is pretty shitty when you look at how many followers he has, especially considering a lot of them will be young men. It's just normalising abuse
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Your team are still playing Thomas Partey for fcuk sake!
 
garelo said:
Your team are still playing Thomas Partey for fcuk sake!
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Do you think I'm a senior member of staff at Arsenal? I've been pretty consistent in my views about male (alleged) abusers
 
SilentWitness said:
I don't think it is much of a reach though to suggest that he knows Greenwood will get clicks and interactions and I don't think either that it's poor form from someone to have a problem with someone using Greenwood for clicks and interactions.
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The Athletic would’ve struggled without their daily story on it.
 
Mogget said:
Do you think I'm a senior member of staff at Arsenal? I've been pretty consistent in my views about male (alleged) abusers
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so are you going to stop supporting arsenal now?
 
garelo said:
so are you going to stop supporting arsenal now?
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I've been considering it. I don't really like the direction football in general is heading and our owners are evil billionaire cnuts so even if we win major trophies it'll be tainted
 
Although those screenshots could be from anywhere, it wouldn't surprise me in the slightest.
 
Why is this guy popular? I see comments on social media by people who follow him religiously. "I'll only believe if confirmed by Romano". Does he have a track record of knowing accurate inside news?
 
Berbaclass said:
Always called him Fraudbrizio…
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Doesn't that validate him as a source?

Why would it be surprising to anyone, at this point, that he gets the info from the agents?

I don't know why people have this hard-on for trying to discredit the guy. Very weird. Obviously, selling promo in his position is, at best/worst, unethical, but if you're just looking to him for scoops - what exactly is the "gotcha!" moment here?
 
JogaBonitoRooney said:
Why is this guy popular? I see comments on social media by people who follow him religiously. "I'll only believe if confirmed by Romano". Does he have a track record of knowing accurate inside news?
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You must be new
 
He is never wrong because he is not a journalist but the biggest football influencer. He is working for players, agents and clubs to get their information out.
On the one hand, it's good to have a mouthpiece legitimized by clubs and agents whose information you can rely on. You also have to note thats it seems that he also works tirelessly and does a good job.

On the other hand, Romano kills a lot of tension from the transfer windows and rumors.
The Mbappe transfer is probably the most boring high profile transfer ever.

The real journalists must hate him.
 
If his name was Freddie Romley people would be calling him a fraud and he would be working for Daily Mail.
 
R0nald0 said:
He makes so many claims that some of them are bound to become reality. He's the epitome of throwing enough shit at a wall.
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He makes about 10+ claims per day. Can you name me a single one in the last 12 months that he got wrong?

Just read my post above. He is a mouthpiece of clubs and agents and not a journalist who is trying to sell rumours.

edit: a mouthpiece that kills all the fun and excitement of transfer windows and sagas
 
R0nald0 said:
He makes so many claims that some of them are bound to become reality. He's the epitome of throwing enough shit at a wall.
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Other way around, no? He makes claims about things that are near the finish line. You won't get any early scoops from him, just confirmations of transfers and other events as they wrap up.

A "tap-in merchant", as some would say.
 
I don’t care much for him but at this point it would be absurd to suggest he doesn’t know stuff.
 
Jev said:
I don’t care much for him but at this point it would be absurd to suggest he doesn’t know stuff.
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Yeah he’s got a niche and did well - think it’s quite a simple business model in that he pays for info he wants to ‘break’ (this is where I would say he’s average, I’m not sure he breaks much news but will normally have the correct details if transfers first/earlt) and charges agents/clubs for drumming up interest in their players like with that leaked sales email he sent to the Norwegian club. This part is what he’s the best at, even I don’t know if there’s really any value here for a casual fan, he’s got people now for every major league and fingers in a thousand agent’s pies.
 
Trezeguet17 said:
He is never wrong because he is not a journalist but the biggest football influencer. He is working for players, agents and clubs to get their information out.
On the one hand, it's good to have a mouthpiece legitimized by clubs and agents whose information you can rely on. You also have to note thats it seems that he also works tirelessly and does a good job.

On the other hand, Romano kills a lot of tension from the transfer windows and rumors.
The Mbappe transfer is probably the most boring high profile transfer ever.

The real journalists must hate him.
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I don't follow transfer gossip much, could you explain a little more? Probably being thick but I don't understand.

I can understand selling clubs and agents wanting to put news out that a player of theirs is in talks with another team as then they can start a bidding war. Higher transfer fee, higher wages etc. But then if another club did swoop in and 'steal' that player it would actually make his initial claim look wrong in the eyes of the public as they'd end up joining a different club altogether. Nobody would be able to prove the club that was supposedly trying to sign him first missed out or was ever even interested to begin with. Clubs do not comment publicly about players they tried, but fail to sign.

He must appear to be wrong sometimes if he's at all successful at stirring up further interest in a player through his leaks. If he never appears to be wrong and was always telling the truth about the initial bid/interest it means this tactic never works so why would anyone want him to work for them after seeing how ineffective it is?

If you're the buying club you don't want it widely known that you're trying to sign somoene as it invites competition. No benefit for them.

If he does none of the above then ignore.

If he's genuinely always right and the players always join the club he says they will then all he's doing is announcing done deals but to who's benefit? What do the buying or selling club/agent get out of him announcing before it's on the club webiste and social media? It's not changing anything at that point.

Help me understand!
 
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