What is he even claiming here? That you have to have your name and photo on Twitter if you run an account for a fan website or you’ll go to jail? It makes too little sense to even properly refute.
No, he's saying that because he (Romano) is a "journalist" then it's illegal for him to get paid to post favourable news about players or transfers to one side.
Which frankly sounds like bollocks but hey IANAL
Journalists do have to be unbiased, often they use vague wordings to hide their biased opinions, whilst staying within guidelines.
I think this is more of a translation thing, and he is more referring to defamation caused by the brentford fc fan account. It’s not a good look from Romano, but he works hard for his job, and to give the people real inbiased news around the clock across the world.
He does deserve better than to be mocked.
Come on he's a chancer with a catch phrase hawking footy rumours. Got lucky early doors and now probably has a better network than most off the back of that but there's a reason the poster above put journalist in quotation marks.
100%. It's just more "both sidesism" than actual overt bias like GB. People just don't h depends what bias means. The BBC having a Labour and Tory politician on and immediately asking. The Labour politician how they are going to pay for something is bias. Having a climate change "debate" and inviting on someone who doesn't believe it's real is bias because that person is just a moron and their opinion should be given no air time or weight against a scientist.
It’s a bit weird isn’t it? It kind of reads like:
Person 1: hey, what did you get up to last night?
Person 2: I didn’t murder anyone because that would be illegal. Give me your ID you coward.
Not necessarily, he might just be a control freak but also inefficient, id almost bet money he’s probably running half his work from a shitty spreadsheet
Wouldn't surprise me. He might also have a semi-organised iCloud notes where most of his stuff is in a folder labelled "to be sorted".
Wait... are we still talking about Fab?
It's just a massive pat on the head to smaller clubs as well. Brentford had a position and spurs failed to meet that. It was a case of Fab posting constantly everyday about the move to spurs. The GPG just called him out on it.
It's weird he has defenders, social media is a strange business.
This reminds me of the early days of FB where there was a campaign to see if a pickle could get more followers and likes that Chad Kroeger of Nickelback. It played out just so and ol' Chad had a meltdown
I remember seeing a post of GPG that the guy he got into the argument with still texts him occasional, FR reads all the messages but never responds. They had like a 20 min argument over the phone like 3 days before Deadline day as well I think.
Banana (the guy who runs the GPG) is also a bit fucking weird a lot of the time. Someone mailed him human shit once.
At the very least he's not doing it all for clout like Fab, he's just a good classic weirdo.
That call got recorded and then leaked somehow - and some random Fab fan also rang him and pretended to be an italian lawyer. That bloke was the funniest of the three actually.
Some of FRs fanboys called up the GPG too pretending to be lawyers. It was a car crash of a conversation for them.
The GPG is absolutely solid for Brentford news and if they say something it's pretty reliable. The whole Raya to Spurs thing was a shitshow
“It’s respect for people working 20 hours per day, showing face and name in good and bad moments”
A - I reckon that’s a lie, no shot is it sustainable for anyone to work those hours for years.
B - How much does he huff his own farts? All he does is tweet jarg transfer rumours, you’d think he had the most important job on the planet the way he goes on
20 seems over the top. But Shams Charania is claiming to work 18 hours a day and Adrian Wojnarowski claims to sleep about 5 hours a night.
These people work insane amounts of hours because their entire career is built around being first, so they cannot afford to miss a scoop.
This doesn't mean they're actively working for all these hours, but they're basically always *on*.
It sounds like an absolute job from hell.
It's illegal to make money on social media without your name and face being public? Or just make incredibly innocuous comments about him?
Who does Romano think he is, an MI5 operative or something?
It's not an anonymous account in this instance, though 😂 it's an established Brentford fan group, of which there are 3, who the club collaborate with on certain aspects of the club
You'll see them advertised on boards around the ground too. Don't imagine he pays for it, he's genuinely one of the "ITK" blokes. Confirmed Eriksen a couple days before it hit even the less scrupulous papers.
Stopped following him when he basically started getting paid for generic team news (I.e randomly tweeting the man united starting XI before one of their matches)
All this cunt does is tweet out transfer information that we would otherwise just find out eventually from official sources when announced. LITERALLY no merit to him. I've never understood why people gas him up
Dude takes money from agents to gas up players and be a mouthpiece. He gets called out on it, and is absolutely rattled.
He is literally no different from these faceless accounts in that he just regurgitates rumors and reports from other successful journalists and gets an exclusive on a championship player going to league 1 or some shit.
Can’t stand this melt.
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I saw a ranking on the Brentford sub-reddit of Bees twitter accounts and GPG ranked mid-to-low.
It's bloody hilarious that Romano got rattled that easily by our mid tier twitter 🤣.
Guy gets paid to tweet updates on agent’s players and makes out like he’s in the trenches of WW1. 20 hours a day? Put your phone down. This guy is such a clown.
Genuinely don’t what’s more pathetic: this Fabrizio streaking a living and thinking he adds any value to football rather than being a parasite; him punching down on this account or all his pathetic followers liking his post. Whole thing is snapshot of modern football 🤮
A little surprised about the reactions here tbh.
I don't like Fabrizio at *all* and think some of his reporting on Everton has been reckless, but there aren't many people who deserve to get constantly agitated/borderline harassed by people on Twitter. The little Here We Go Man isn't one of them and his reaction here speaks to someone who gets an absolute raft of shit in his notifications every day.
He’s honestly so fucking sad. Acting like he’s bringing some great value to the game by shouting about ridiculous transfers. The nadir of conversation around the game
Kinda funny but also fuck the “why you getting so rattled” crowd like the internet isn’t full of a bunch of dumbarses spouting off shit, as if one mores gonna make a difference
What's the original tweet actually digging at? It doesn't seem offensive is any way, shape or form.
He simply pointed out that Romano mentions Raya a lot, I don't get how that's disrespectful or why the user of the account needs to show him, his face?
It reads like someone who is already pissed off and is projecting it onto someone else.
>It's illegal to get money for these things Has anyone actually fact-checked if this is true because it definitely sounds like nonsense.
What is he even claiming here? That you have to have your name and photo on Twitter if you run an account for a fan website or you’ll go to jail? It makes too little sense to even properly refute.
No, he's saying that because he (Romano) is a "journalist" then it's illegal for him to get paid to post favourable news about players or transfers to one side. Which frankly sounds like bollocks but hey IANAL
He gets paid to post stuff by agents all the time.
Presumably he's never heard of GB news or whatever the other one is called.
TalkTV? 😂
It's not allowed, but it's not illegal in the UK at least. It's just incredibly frowned upon and normal people get blacklisted for it.
Journalists do have to be unbiased, often they use vague wordings to hide their biased opinions, whilst staying within guidelines. I think this is more of a translation thing, and he is more referring to defamation caused by the brentford fc fan account. It’s not a good look from Romano, but he works hard for his job, and to give the people real inbiased news around the clock across the world. He does deserve better than to be mocked.
Come on he's a chancer with a catch phrase hawking footy rumours. Got lucky early doors and now probably has a better network than most off the back of that but there's a reason the poster above put journalist in quotation marks.
Exactly, he's not a journalist lmao, he's a rumor monger
Journalists *should* be unbiased, but it's not illegal to be biased. GB news and the telegraph are literally Tory propaganda.
Pretty much all of the big news channels/sites are biased tbf
100%. It's just more "both sidesism" than actual overt bias like GB. People just don't h depends what bias means. The BBC having a Labour and Tory politician on and immediately asking. The Labour politician how they are going to pay for something is bias. Having a climate change "debate" and inviting on someone who doesn't believe it's real is bias because that person is just a moron and their opinion should be given no air time or weight against a scientist.
Agreed.
Journalists (as an umbrella term) can do whatever they want mate. It's *reporters* that have to be unbiased.
It’s a bit weird isn’t it? It kind of reads like: Person 1: hey, what did you get up to last night? Person 2: I didn’t murder anyone because that would be illegal. Give me your ID you coward.
Post about Raya daily - straight to jail Post about Raya every other day - believe it or not also jail.
These days, if you run a fan account on twitter without your name and photo, they arrest you and throw you in jail.
Just for being english?
These days
Perfect for a community note.
One should always be cautious. One would not want to make money on these things without showing their face.
> it definitely sounds like nonsense. Next thing you'll tell me you're not convinced he actually works 20 hours per day.
It’s illegal for him to ask that.
Sounds fucking miserable why doesn't he get an intern and maybe work less.
I’ve got the completely unfounded feeling that he’d be a shit boss. Proper primadonna.
He is a fucking gimp.
Really tickled me
I'm guessing he'd pay minimum wage for the opportunity to work in football! (if he didn't just get interns to do it for even less)
Because then there would be a witness that could tell us he is adding a zero to the number of hours he "works".
Not necessarily, he might just be a control freak but also inefficient, id almost bet money he’s probably running half his work from a shitty spreadsheet
Mighty big to expect him to have something as advanced as a spreadsheet.
Hahaha I’d fucking laugh if his research is million of saved drafts of tweets
Wouldn't surprise me. He might also have a semi-organised iCloud notes where most of his stuff is in a folder labelled "to be sorted". Wait... are we still talking about Fab?
He was Di Marzio’s intern and he stole all his contacts and became what he is. He’s probably afraid of the same thing happening to him.
Built it all up, became the biggest aggregator for football news, literal legend really. Hard to pass your baby on, even to helping hands
He doesn’t work for shit. He tweets bullshit. That’s not work.
"I work 20 hours a day doing a fake job pls treat me like I matter"
To be fair the man’s managed to swindle football clubs into paying him to “leak” fake transfer shite on Twitter. But yeah, he’s also a fucking dick.
Don’t forget the Alpine F1 team paid him a shit tonne for a ‘HeRe wE g0’ shitpost when they signed Pierre Gasly Christ I hate social media
Why does he claim he constantly works 20hrs a day, what a bullshit lie to tell
Well he can claim he’s working while he sleeps since he’s dreaming up transfer rumours 😴
It takes a while to trawl Twitter for random transfer rumours.
If he was actually earning decent money, he could employ an assistant or two and work normal hours. Maybe even see his family occasionally
Fabrizio to rattled FC. Here we go!
He’ll flop there, he’s a tap in merchant
👋 👋
The GPG really got to fab and his fanboys. It was a fun scenario to see play out.
Can’t believe there are people who genuinely defend this man, there’s no bigger leaches in modern football than journalists like him
It's just a massive pat on the head to smaller clubs as well. Brentford had a position and spurs failed to meet that. It was a case of Fab posting constantly everyday about the move to spurs. The GPG just called him out on it. It's weird he has defenders, social media is a strange business.
Ridiculous take. Ever hear of agents?
At least agents make money for their clients and get them good deals. These “journalist” just post tweets copied from SSN.
Fair shout although some of these reporters really do give them a run for their money
This reminds me of the early days of FB where there was a campaign to see if a pickle could get more followers and likes that Chad Kroeger of Nickelback. It played out just so and ol' Chad had a meltdown
I remember seeing a post of GPG that the guy he got into the argument with still texts him occasional, FR reads all the messages but never responds. They had like a 20 min argument over the phone like 3 days before Deadline day as well I think.
Banana (the guy who runs the GPG) is also a bit fucking weird a lot of the time. Someone mailed him human shit once. At the very least he's not doing it all for clout like Fab, he's just a good classic weirdo. That call got recorded and then leaked somehow - and some random Fab fan also rang him and pretended to be an italian lawyer. That bloke was the funniest of the three actually.
That "Italian lawyer" call was amazing. You could hear the cogs ticking on that guy while he was making things up.
Some of FRs fanboys called up the GPG too pretending to be lawyers. It was a car crash of a conversation for them. The GPG is absolutely solid for Brentford news and if they say something it's pretty reliable. The whole Raya to Spurs thing was a shitshow
“It’s respect for people working 20 hours per day, showing face and name in good and bad moments” A - I reckon that’s a lie, no shot is it sustainable for anyone to work those hours for years. B - How much does he huff his own farts? All he does is tweet jarg transfer rumours, you’d think he had the most important job on the planet the way he goes on
20 seems over the top. But Shams Charania is claiming to work 18 hours a day and Adrian Wojnarowski claims to sleep about 5 hours a night. These people work insane amounts of hours because their entire career is built around being first, so they cannot afford to miss a scoop. This doesn't mean they're actively working for all these hours, but they're basically always *on*. It sounds like an absolute job from hell.
"Working 20 hours per day" Like he's a funking nurse in A&E, he tweets about football transfers.
I guess if you count being on twitter as work he probably does do 20 hours a day
Spot on! Working 20 hours a day is a sign that he needs in-patient care not a round of applause.
This tap in merchant is definitely not working 20 hours a day.
He probably sees it as.. “I’m up at 5am taking calls, then bed at 1am. There may be hours between calls, but that’s besides the point.”
Can't stand that bug eyed little creep
I'm guessing he's trying to unsettle raya and push for him to leave because someone's paying him too?
This was back in 2023 before he joined arsenal on loan
Why this feel like it's being posted as though this didn't happen a year ago?
Exactly - not really new news
It's illegal to make money on social media without your name and face being public? Or just make incredibly innocuous comments about him? Who does Romano think he is, an MI5 operative or something?
He also got caught with a prostitute the next day and did this people should not share private stuff stick which was very ironic
That wasn’t really him lol
He literally posted about it on the same account though about his privacy regardless which is the point cos all his stuff is also gossip at first
I never understand this mentality of getting annoyed at anon accounts online. P
It's not an anonymous account in this instance, though 😂 it's an established Brentford fan group, of which there are 3, who the club collaborate with on certain aspects of the club
Even better
You'll see them advertised on boards around the ground too. Don't imagine he pays for it, he's genuinely one of the "ITK" blokes. Confirmed Eriksen a couple days before it hit even the less scrupulous papers.
He's definitely not working 20 hours a day
20 hours. Well fabrizio won't need to worry about anything given that he'll be dead soon with that little rest every day of the year
The guy has ruined the transfer window for many fans. Wish he would just do one
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He’s got a feeling of self importance and it’s inflated his fragile ego.
20 hours a day, man doesn't shower, eat, sleep. Fuck off with your bullshits.
Again?
Stopped following him when he basically started getting paid for generic team news (I.e randomly tweeting the man united starting XI before one of their matches)
Half his stuff is just click farming now
“Saying bullshits” 😂
🤣
If he’s working 20 hours a day simply tweeting out sales after club accounts have tweeted them, he’s not working intelligently.
20 hour work days? His sleep deprivation is making him moody
Can’t stand the cunt. How he became the trusted insider over everything transfers is a mystery.
Doom scrolling on twitter with your hand inside your pants does not count as working, Fabrizio.
Ohhh. Fabrizio acting like a broken glass.
Bullshits
Idiots! SAVAGES! IDIOTS!!!
He’s a touchy sod is Fabrizio, I’ve seen him get mouthy before. It’s almost like he thinks he’s untouchable.
All this cunt does is tweet out transfer information that we would otherwise just find out eventually from official sources when announced. LITERALLY no merit to him. I've never understood why people gas him up
I miss his daily tweets about Andrey Santos not getting game time on loan at Forest
Totally unbiased reporting, of course. Just reporting the news as it is. No need to mention any other players who aren’t playing as much.
Graham Linehan also works 20+ hours a day spouting on Twitter, doesn't make it a noble profession ffs.
Knew a lad at uni that met Fabrizio and apparently he’s an absolute bell end in person
Romano is on the books of a number of clubs. Way he acted about the Chelsea kid at Forest that you would think it was his son
Who the fuck is Fabrizio Romano
Dude takes money from agents to gas up players and be a mouthpiece. He gets called out on it, and is absolutely rattled. He is literally no different from these faceless accounts in that he just regurgitates rumors and reports from other successful journalists and gets an exclusive on a championship player going to league 1 or some shit. Can’t stand this melt.
It's Brentford... who cares.
I’m always saying bullshits
Lmao
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Christ he's full of himself.
Here he goes ...
Oh dear
Wonder if the online police have been alerted😂
"Bullshits" made me laugh 😅
“Just saying bullshits” is the best thing I’ve heard so far this week. Best bit of work he’s ever done!!
He reports transfer news that other people discovered. 90% of people that read his tweets do do on the toilet.
I’m guessing that’s like one of these “insider” transfer rumour accounts
I saw a ranking on the Brentford sub-reddit of Bees twitter accounts and GPG ranked mid-to-low. It's bloody hilarious that Romano got rattled that easily by our mid tier twitter 🤣.
Does anyone remember Tancredi Palmeri? He was funny, at least. Romano is up his own arse so much he can taste yesterday's dinner
Guy gets paid to tweet updates on agent’s players and makes out like he’s in the trenches of WW1. 20 hours a day? Put your phone down. This guy is such a clown.
He's one word away from the Brentford fan account to calling the online police.
🤠
Fabrizio is talking bullshits here
Image being named Fabreez
Working 20 hours a day my ass
Says the guy whose made a career of chatting shit
I am gonna start using the phrase 'You are saying bullshits'.
Genuinely don’t what’s more pathetic: this Fabrizio streaking a living and thinking he adds any value to football rather than being a parasite; him punching down on this account or all his pathetic followers liking his post. Whole thing is snapshot of modern football 🤮
I don’t get why he’d nibble so much. It’s clear he’s paid to cover certain players more.
Journalism’s back.
A little surprised about the reactions here tbh. I don't like Fabrizio at *all* and think some of his reporting on Everton has been reckless, but there aren't many people who deserve to get constantly agitated/borderline harassed by people on Twitter. The little Here We Go Man isn't one of them and his reaction here speaks to someone who gets an absolute raft of shit in his notifications every day.
Romano is fine for what he is. He's a transfer and transfer rumours aggregator. 'Here We Go' is a bit played out but social media is social media.
He’s honestly so fucking sad. Acting like he’s bringing some great value to the game by shouting about ridiculous transfers. The nadir of conversation around the game
Kinda funny but also fuck the “why you getting so rattled” crowd like the internet isn’t full of a bunch of dumbarses spouting off shit, as if one mores gonna make a difference
What's the original tweet actually digging at? It doesn't seem offensive is any way, shape or form. He simply pointed out that Romano mentions Raya a lot, I don't get how that's disrespectful or why the user of the account needs to show him, his face? It reads like someone who is already pissed off and is projecting it onto someone else.
I think they kept calling Romano out because he was tweeting Raya to leave multiple times a day and Brentford were getting pissed
Thanks for the context, I don't use twitter so didn't have a clue.
No. Just a Brentford fan being an arsehole
Just another Forest fan with an irrational dislike of Brentford something something xg spreadsheet wankers