"HERE WE GO!": The Lowdown on "Football Journalist" Fabrizio Romano

Interesting article on Fabrizio Romano. I am not a fan of him as he seems to plagiarize other people's work so this might just be an echo chamber for me. Would be interested to hear other's thoughts on him

Good article, but I disagree with the overarching implication that journalism is more pure if it doesn't use ads. Donations (or subscription fees) mean you've created an echo chamber of followers and you lean into what they want to hear so the donations keep coming.

Fab taking ad money from Saudi to help them sportswash doesn't necessarily make him a bad journalist (especially since he identified it as an ad), but it does make him a crappy person.

I saw that ad for Saudi Arabia's "global humanitarian role" and thought it was really weird. Surely the dude doesn't need money that badly.


I think, as the article says, he does have contacts with numerous clubs and does post exclusive information. He also gladly plays the role of aggregator which I know annoys plenty of other reporters and isn't ideal.

But it is kind of hard not to follow him considering the amount of information he provides on one account.

Sounds like he might be getting "a little too big for his britches" as my dad would say.