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 Guardian 574 1426
40.3%
Sky Sports 260 755
34.4%
Daily Telegraph 750 2279
32.9%
Daily Record 289 892
32.4%
The Times 600 1929
31.1%
The Scotsman 11 38
28.9%
The Herald 24 83
28.9%
Goal 149 519
28.7%
The Independent 334 1173
28.5%
Marca 147 537
27.4%

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 2.00
News Of The World 1.85
The Sun 1.58
Daily Mail 1.37
The People 1.24
Daily Star 0.79
The Express 0.70
Daily Telegraph 0.35
The Times 0.30
Talk Sport 0.25

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)

The Guardian

3.4 (31K votes)

Inside Futbol

3.4 (6K votes)

Footy Online

3.4 (2K votes)

The Herald

3.4 (535 votes)

Footy Latest

3.4 (3K votes)

The Times

3.3 (40K votes)

Metro

3.3 (49K votes)

Daily Telegraph

3.3 (47K votes)

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