How do you normally get your transfer news? National papers? Sky Sports News? Someone sharing texts from their mum on the internet?
The third one might not be the most common, but it may well have the best hit-rate. That’s right, one out of one is still 100%.
The deal in question is Mo Diamé’s move from Hull City to Newcastle United. The Senegalese midfielder has been heavily linked with a return to the Championship, but we wanted to wait for a reputable source.
Thankfully, this random woman who we’ve never seen before was there with the evidence. And if you can’t trust the mother of someone you’ve never met, who can you trust?
https://twitter.com/FLeagueWorld/status/760479560848797696
We’re excited to see how guerrilla reporting is taken to the next level after this.
Someone’s dad sharing a slyly-taken photo of Alexandre Lacazette in an Arsenal training kit as an attachment to one of those long email chains full of jokes you read last week, perhaps?
Or maybe one of those rowdy kids in the background behind deadline day reporters holding up a detailed A4 printout of Paul Pogba’s Manchester United contract, clauses and all.
Families of Britain, the floor is yours.
Thanks to JOE reader Leighton Robson for sending this our way. If any of your family members have got any inside transfer information, let us know via Facebook or Twitter.
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