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Transfer Balls: Arsenal £45m for Benzema accepted on twitter and tabloids

by | 15th, August 2015

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Are Arsenal buying Real Madrid’s French striker Karim Benzema? Italian journalist Emanuele Giulianelli says they are:

 

  Who is the source for this scoop? Well, on twitter, Giulianelli descibes himself:

Football writer. FIFA Weekly, Panenka, FourFourTwo, La Gazzetta dello Sport, Il Messaggero, Radio Yorkshire.

Why should a man who writes in Italy know that a French player who works in Spain is coming to London before anyone else?  And why are his tweets picked up by the British Press:

 

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If you say something enough, eventually you come close.

PS: The Italian source has been linked to a Dick Law (who isn’t the Arsenal scout):



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