Fabrizio Romano: Players text me and I text them too asking for transfer info.
When it comes to football transfers, the Italian journalist Fabrizio Romano has been credited as the most entrusted football journalist in Europe. The 30 year old journalist works for Sky Sports Italy and also works for the Guardian and CBS sports. The journalist started writing news about football back in 2009. He is based in Milan.
The Italian journalist rose to fame back in 2011 while still taking his studies when he received an inside information about the transfer of Barcelona B player Mauro Icardi from an Italian agent. This transfer news was his breakthrough to his rise as the news were received in an unique way.The journalist after this news he created what came to be the famous transfer tagline “Here we go” after he lacked words to describe a completed transfer deal and only wrote here we go. The next year he joined Sports Italy. Since then he has created and built contacts with clubs, agents and intermediaries all over Europe.
Many people asks about where the transfer journalist gets his football news from. In recent interview after the closing of this year summer transfer window the journalist when asked this he answered by stating that a lot of players directly text him or her texts them and ask for the information. And sometimes the players tell him to write something about them because they want to leave the club.
The journalist won the 2022 Globe Soccer Digital Award for the best football journalist.
