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 109 253
43.1%
The Guardian 633 1572
40.3%
Sky Sports 347 991
35.0%
Daily Telegraph 866 2587
33.5%
Daily Record 303 937
32.3%
The Times 651 2057
31.6%
Marca 173 579
29.9%
Goal 161 540
29.8%
The Scotsman 11 38
28.9%
The Independent 362 1266
28.6%

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 1.83
News Of The World 1.64
The Sun 1.50
Daily Mail 1.30
The People 1.10
Daily Star 0.72
The Express 0.64
Daily Telegraph 0.36
The Times 0.28
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)

The Herald

3.4 (539 votes)

Footy Online

3.4 (2K 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.