When the transfer window opens twice a year, the news for a possible transfer of a player looks to be the hot topic for every football fan. It can become difficult to keep up with it all, as many of these news outlets are motivated by a desire to drive traffic to their websites through clicks.
Most of the time, transfer rumours are, transfer rumours, nothing more.
It has therefore become increasingly important to be able to seperate the content. We have splitted the rumours into different categories of trust, and hopefully this guide will give you the information needed to understand the market, how it works and when a rumour possibly can be happining. We have seperated this in a ranking system, splitting it all up in five categories.
Soccervoice are constantly trying to bring you the transfer talk that hopefully will be close to correct and with substance. In general a transfer rumour can be excactly what it is, just a rumour. That is why our guide do not intend to be a moral speaker, but just try to categorize what is out there, and in that way hopefully give our readers the understanding of how strong or soft the number of rumours are.
Category 0, Undisputed, Official
Official source of information, not really commenting on rumours, but in all confirming a move when it happens, could be the club selling or buying the player. A great number of sites also have lists of confirmed transfers, with breaking stories when it happens.
SOURCES – CATEGORY – ZERO
- SOCCERVOICE OFFICIAL CLUB WEBSITE CATALOG
- SOCCERVOICE OFFICAL LEAGUE, CUP AND ASSOCIATIONS WEBSITE CATALOG
Category 1, Most Reliable
Sources ranked in this category, they are usually not the first to disclose a club’s interest in a player, but when they comment on a particular rumour or transfer bid, you can be reasonably sure that there is a foundation and truthfulness to the story. In most cases, a transfer is likely to be completed.
SOURCE – CATEGORY – ONE
Category 2, Proven
In this category you will find sources that often pin points a deal, but are taking risks to report on something that is not yet certain. Trusted and serious sources from the past, often not really having any talk of any deals done, before it actually is, has fallen down into this category, and sometimes miss their target, hopefully not often. A category to have an eye on as most transfers talked of here will go through,
Category 3, Average
When a rumour appear for the first time, some sites do believe in printing, as they feel it has some sort of realibility. At times you can find rumours in this category to be worth a read as they give you a bit of first hand knowledge of a transfer, and sometimes this is one going through.
Category 4, Indirect
This can be some sort of story with a thin source of trust, but in real not even gossip, and something to be taken “out of thin air”, nothing else.
Category 5, No filter
There are several sites coming out with different stories on tranfers, not really filtered. Over time, these sites do carry on transfer talk that in a way looks far from accurate, but still in some way have their purpose as they sometimes get hits the target.
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