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 52 119
43.7%
The Guardian 597 1499
39.8%
Sky Sports 294 831
35.4%
Daily Telegraph 797 2420
32.9%
Daily Record 298 924
32.3%
The Times 614 1965
31.2%
Goal 158 532
29.7%
Marca 166 561
29.6%
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 1.92
News Of The World 1.75
The Sun 1.55
Daily Mail 1.33
The People 1.17
Daily Star 0.76
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 (31K votes)

Footy Online

3.4 (2K votes)

The Herald

3.4 (535 votes)

Footy Latest

3.4 (3K votes)

The Times

3.3 (41K votes)

Metro

3.3 (49K votes)

Daily Telegraph

3.3 (48K votes)

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