Every day in January brings a handful of new Liverpool transfer rumours. But which rumour are you? Try our Liverpool Transfer Rumour Generator to find out!
Transfer rumours. On the whole they are fun. A bit like drawing a Christmas list for Santa. You can pretend that you are going to get Millennium Falcon Lego set when really you’re getting a pair socks. It starts out with so much hope before the cold reality sets in.
This has become a whole side industry of the football world. The BBC Transfer gossip column is a staple of the avid soccer fan. The Guardian’s daily ‘The Fiver’ column takes a sideways and sometimes surreal spin on the rumours. At at 10:30pm UK time the Mirror drops its 5 biggest transfer stories on Twitter.
Almost everything you hear is nonsense. Take a look at the craziest Liverpool transfers of 2017. Absolute bobbins. All of them. This year has already ludicrous speculation linking Liverpool to Alexis Sanchez, Antoine Griezmann and Gareth Bale.
Now we are giving you the chance to create your own rumor. All you have to do is complete this sentence with your date of birth from the list below:
“Liverpool are [MONTH] [DAY]….”
Mine is “Liverpool are closing in on Dani Ceballos”. Which was an actual thing. Which one are you?
See, you too can be a journalist for Metro, Daily Star, The S*n or Marca. This is about the level those publications go towards actual journalism and insight. It is easy. The painful part is that most of these would be quite good for Liverpool and none of them are going to happen in January. Oh well. May as well enjoy it instead.
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