I Created a Transfer Rumor and It Blew Up

Sometimes I get an idea and just act on it and then it becomes way more than I thought it would, and a few days ago on deadline day I did just that. I started my stream by cooking up a transfer rumor that would end up shifting the betting odds by over 300% which is not something I thought was possible with so little effort.

I’m honestly a bit disturbed by how easy it was to shift the betting odds. I felt like those things should be more carefully considered but it doesn’t seem like there’s a real person in the whole process. It just goes to show, don’t trust rumor mill stuff without sources, especially when the deadline day rumor has a bunch of comments saying its fake.

Much Love,
The Zealand

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[minichalvo]

Z just altered the entire transfer day as a side quest

[sunnyhvar]

I could absolutely see the Everton fans seeing the "news" and going "Wait yeah, that sounds like it would be a good move", and then someone on Everton's social media team saying "Wait, fans are saying this, and y'know, I agree", and then the guy in charge saying "Yeah, sounds good to me, let's see if we can make it happen"

[KT-kigz]

Someone at Everton management: GUYS! That FM wizkid who can save any save is telling us to get Sarr, MAKE IT HAPPEN!!!

[slainezero]

Everton is like me when fm linkes me with some random players ive never heard of during deadline day and im like "well it wont hurt to look at him"

[wilsonlee]

This is like on FM when there's a new article about my team allegedly interested in a player and I'm like "Who the F is that guy?" *right click* *scout for 1 week*

[alexandrumicu]

I don't know what part is more funny: the fact that fake rumours can be propagated so fast or that the fake rumour will become true.

[akamiguelsanchez]

I worked as a sports journalist for nearly a decade for various major publications and was always shocked at how transfer rumours work. One of the first transfer stories I wrote was linking Adam Le Fondre to Liverpool because he was spotted shopping there.

Typically though, a random account/paper in Portugal or Spain would make a baseless claim. Then a more well-known site would pick it up for page views, which would always lead to the Mail, Sun, Mirror etc would print it but would use each other as the 'original source' so it started to sound less insane.

[Kimera]

7:20 that was actually my theory too...

And I don't think Z undershot it by quoting "£25m incentives included", I'd say maybe Watford saw the tweet and decided to play hardball 😁 it was deadline day after all 😂

Zealand might not realize that not just transfer odds are weird, transfer processes are even weirder too, regardless of the stature of the clubs involved.
The stuff that goes behind the scenes is absolute bonkers.

[ReeceTheEditor]

“I’m not gonna mess with Everton, that’s Reece’s team”

“Everton is interested”

[IMOReviews]

I’ve always thought this was the case. So many rumours and transfer gossip feels like they’ve just pulled a footballers name and a club from out of a hat. I must have seen Messi photoshopped into a Man City kit over 50 to 100 times in any named newspaper for the last decade 😂

[DJMavis]

As an Everton fan, it wouldn't surprise me at all to discover they saw your tweet and thought "yeah, he knows what he's doing more than we do, let's try it".

[GIBBO]

This is genuinely hilarious! Shows how little work and research some of these websites/Twitter pages actually do!

[e_eyster]

Depending on the timelines you know that Everton was desperately trying to find who leaked that transfer rumor for those few hours.

[esteban.bernal]

Z, that last thing you said is totally possible. Maradona's last job as a manager in Gimnasia came about just like that: a fan posted a joke tweet about the interest in hiring him, journalists citing sources from the club said it was false, but management finally went "hey, why not?", and went out and hired him. It was both hilarious and shocking how a joke misinformation tweet could influence actual decisions made by clubs.

[ellism]

This reminds me of fm when a reporter asks if I’m interested in a player I’m “linked” to even though I’m not but then have a look and actually go on to sign him😂

[RatoneroGris]

Its like the 3rd time this has happened lol, Spanish YouTubers do It a lot. Like Marcelo to Lecester

[SeranaTheStudent]

I was there when he created the tweet. The fact that Everton did actually try to get the player was surprising.

[yvltc]

This is what I do in FM, a reporter says I'm allegedly interested in signing someone and I go like hmmmm yes good idea thanks for the tip

[mattjames]

I'm an everton fan and I love your editor instantly then! :) Give him a hug Zealand, he like me might need it by the end of the season lol

[DoctorBenjyFM]

Personally... I'd have done it with James Ward-Prowse