INTER TRANSFER SOURCES RELIABILITY TIERS THREAD
There was an interest in Tonali's thread about a transfer tiers thread so here's my attempt. I am sure some people will disagree with my options so feel free to make your suggestions/objections in order to improve the list. I have mostly focused on Italian sources but i have also included the most popular sources from abraod. I have also included the most reliable sources for our rivals in case anyone is interested.
Tier 1
Journalist/Source Country Gianluca Di Marzio – Sky Sport Italia Italy Fabrizio Romano – Sky Sport Italia
Italy Alfredo Pedulla – SportItalia Italy Fabrizio Biasin - Libero
Italy Matteo Barzaghi - Sky Sport Italia Italy Il Sole 24 Ore (Financial) Italy Calcio e Finanza (Financial) Italy Romeo Agresti (Juventus) Italy Antonio Vittielo (Milan) Italy Filippo Biafora (Roma) Italy Carlo Alvino (Napoli) Italy Simon Stone - BBC England David Ornstein (Arsenal) England BBC Sport England Mohammed Bouhafsi - RMC France Mike Verweij - Telegraaf Netherlands Voetbal International Netherlands Alfredo Martinez - Onda Cero (Barcelona) Spain Edu Polo - Mundo Deportivo Spain Jose Luis Sanchez - Radio Marca (Real) Spain Christian Falk - SportBild Germany Süddeutsche Zeitung Germany Ruhr Nachrichten (Schalke & Dortmund) Germany Globoesporte Brazil Paul Joyce - Times (Liverpool) England James Pearce - Echo (Liverpool) England Kristof Terreur - The Guardian Belgium
Tier 2
Journalist/Source
Country Sky Sport Italia Italy Nicolo Schira - Gazzetta dello Sport Italy Matt Law - Telegraph (Chelsea) England James Ducker - Telegraph England Bild (Bayern) Germany COPE Spain Ed Aarons - Guardian (Spurs) England Sam Lee - Goal.com England Raphael Honigstein - Sky Germany Germany oJogo Portugal Edu Aguirre (El Chiringuito) Spain Radio Catalunya (Barcelona) Spain Gerard Romero - RAC1 Spain Cadena SER Spain Edu Pidal - Onda Cero (Real) Spain Melissa Reddy - Goal.com Liverpool RMC France Der Westen Germany
Tier 3
Journalist/Source Country Gazzetta dello Sport Italy SportItalia Italy Il Tempo (Roma) Italy Corriere della Sera Italy La Nazione (Fiorentina) Italy Carlo Laudisa - Gazzetta dello Sport Italy Matteo Pedrosi Italy ANSA Italy Telegraph England Guardian England Independent England Sky Sports UK England The Times England aBola Portugal Le Parisien France Kicker Germany Onda Cero Spain Sport1 Germany
Tier 4
Journalist/Source Country Corriere dello Sport Italy Tuttosport Italy Sport Mediaset Italy La Stampa (Tier 2 for Juventus) Italy Rai Sport Italy TuttoMercatoWeb Italy FC Inter News Italy La Repubblica Italy Il Giorno Italy Il Giornale Italy Il Mattino Italy Il Messaggero Italy Il Fatto Quotidiano Italy Calciomercato.com (unless it's Romano) Italy Calciomercato.it Italy Libero Italy Luca Marchetti - Sky Sport Italia Italy Michele Criscitiello - SportItalia Italy Eurosport Various Guillem Ballague England/Spain Daily Mirror England Daily Mail England Marca Spain AS Spain Mundo Deportivo Spain Record Portugal Sky Deutschland Germany Goal.com Various L'Equipe France France Football France
Tier 5
Journalist/Source Country Tancredi Palmeri Italy The Sun England Metro England Daily Express England Daily Star England Don Balon Spain Sport Spain Diario Gol Spain ESPN USA
Yeah. He's a journalist but he's more like the FCIN guys. He doesn't report his own news. Just share reports of others. He's an Interista btw.
What about this guy? He claims to be giornalista.
Any changes on the tiers this year?
And then Messi posts a picture outside the Duomo
Conte: Easier to move the Duomo in Milan than bring Messi to Inter
this guy is a masterpiece
I agree.Time to update these?
Biasin is the only guy who knows Inter stuff and extremely rarely is off. Most times he is off is because the parameters of the situation have changed.
Romano and Di Marzio know only finalized deals or deals that are close to be finalized.
Schira is an awkward one, but he's not totally unreliable. Sometimes he just takes information he receives for granted and passes it on as fact and is not in a great position to fact check or assess it. He just wants to be first.
Pedulla is reliable but has this issue with Di Marzio so he falls for the same shit Schira does, but mostly because he wants to prove to Di Marzio that he's better at this game.
meSo, who was the first one that said we are after Gosens?