Transfer season does funny things to us. One line from a reporter turns into a meltdown, a victory lap, or a 20-page argument before lunch. And I get it, we all want clarity. But with Liverpool, especially, it’s usually worth taking a step back and looking at the bigger picture rather than latching onto every update as gospel.
Reporters aren’t always telling you the whole story
A lot of the transfer reporting around big clubs works because of relationships. Access matters. Being kept in the loop matters. So it’s not wild to think plenty of reporters function, at least some of the time, as a kind of mouthpiece for what the club wants out there.
That doesn’t automatically make them liars, to be fair. It just means what they’re putting out can be shaped. It might be true in a narrow sense, but not the full truth. Or it might be the club’s preferred framing of the situation rather than what’s actually happening behind the scenes.
“No signings” can be a message, not a final answer
Take the classic line: “there will be no signings this window”. Loads of fans read that as the end of the story, heads gone, season written off. But I’d be careful with it. Sometimes that sort of message is leverage, not a diary entry.
Clubs negotiate constantly, and words are part of the negotiation. Putting out a firmer stance can be about shifting the pressure onto the selling club, cooling a price, or getting someone back to the table on Liverpool’s terms rather than theirs. It’s posturing, basically, and it happens across the league every summer.
The truth is, until something is agreed and signed, none of us really know. Not fully. And even then, deals can collapse late, or suddenly accelerate when the timing suits everyone.
Where do ITKs fit into it?
On the ITK side, I understand why some supporters put more stock in them than in the usual media cycle. The appeal is obvious: it feels closer to what the club is actually trying to do, rather than what it wants publicly known.
But football is messy. Loads of moving parts, changing priorities, different opinions inside the same club. So even a well-connected person can be right on Monday and wrong by Friday, not because they’re making it up, but because the situation’s changed.
For me, the best approach is calm. Read it all if you enjoy it, argue your corner, have your fun with the rumours, but don’t let every update decide your mood. Trust the club to move when it’s the correct moment, and fair play to the posters who keep the rumour mill ticking. The place wouldn’t be the same without them.
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