Definitely dubious, but the difference with making up transfer stories and making up stories like this is that you can always say the transfer fell through, or whatever, when it doesn't happen. It's a lot harder to demonstrate you weren't bulls**tting when something like this turns out not to be true. He did say "hearing reports", I suppose, but from where? Weird one. His post history before this seems to stick to transfer rumours. Surely they start training then, but are there a while before to eat and change and whatnot.
There's also quite a few undelivered on tweets and "RT-bait". I'm 70% sure that he's full of ****. If he is a journalist, why has he got absolutely nothing published (that I can find anyway)? Not even a blog? Tumblr? Myspace? Bebo? Livejournal? Geocities? Angelfire?
"Marvellous thank you. The sun is shining & my glamorous assistant is topping up my herbal tea as we speak. How was your weekend? @K_33BRO" Well he does sound like a complete douche. Probably pronounces it "erbal" as well. Then again, you only have to be in the vicinity of the training ground to catch wind of a big bust up. Don't need to be a journalist.
Also noticed he always puts the @s at the end of his tweets so they show up in everyone's feed, keeping him in larger circulation. I'm going to go out on a limb here and say he's a pillock.
I'm not convinced that guy is a legitimate journalist... ...he has a LinkedIn profile linked to his Twitter but you can't see anything unless you're 'friends' with him on there. Highly unusual for a journalist to make his CV private - it just isn't normal practice.
Especially a supposed freelancer. How do you get work if your **** is locked and you don't show your writing anywhere?
I've just Googled his name and the words "journalist" and "article" etc. No one seems to have any online writing profiles for him, either... even if you just type my name in, you get all my profiles and my articles.
Too many players at Southampton at the moment, only fair that they hold a fight club, the loser must be sold #youarenotspecial
I kind of want this to be true as in a morbid, self-deprecating way it would be pretty funny. Complete club implosion in a month.