Journalists and sources garner cult followings, with credibility becoming currency. Romano and Ornstein, journos at Guardian and The Athletic respectively, have become synonymous with the transfer window and hold the most elusive card in the game — the final word. When they break a piece of transfer news, its veracity is never questioned. Its only then I take any notice. Until then its rumour, people twatting on twitter, X or whatever its called these days - mostly bollocks to get people moist.