Here football transfer league shows you the stats behind all those rumours produced by all the different rumour sources. Currently showing accuracy and average rumours produced (per day). Any interesting statistics that you think we are missing, please drop us a line.

Rumour Accuracy

Source Correct Total Num Accuracy
The Athletic 57 142
40.1%
The Guardian 597 1510
39.5%
Sky Sports 295 844
35.0%
Daily Telegraph 798 2447
32.6%
Daily Record 298 925
32.2%
The Times 615 1984
31.0%
Goal 159 532
29.9%
Marca 167 562
29.7%
The Scotsman 11 38
28.9%
The Herald 24 83
28.9%

Info: Figures are based on all rumours we have that have been resolved (player has transfered or signed a new contract). FTL rumour data goes back to the start of summer 2006 transfer window.

Rumours Per Day

Rumour Source Num Rumours
Daily Mirror 1.91
News Of The World 1.74
The Sun 1.54
Daily Mail 1.33
The People 1.16
Daily Star 0.75
The Express 0.67
Daily Telegraph 0.36
The Times 0.29
Talk Sport 0.24

Info: On average how many rumours do each rumour source produce a day. Again using all rumours from the start of summer 2006 transfer window.

User Rating

Rumour Source User Rating
El Mundo

4.0 (8 votes)

Footy Bunker

3.8 (4K votes)

Inside Futbol

3.4 (6K votes)

The Guardian

3.4 (32K votes)

Footy Online

3.4 (2K votes)

The Herald

3.4 (535 votes)

Footy Latest

3.4 (3K votes)

Metro

3.3 (49K votes)

The Times

3.3 (41K votes)

Daily Telegraph

3.3 (48K votes)

Info: This is the average of the user rating for rumours produced by the football rumour source.