Which Arsenal transfer tale is being repeated the most often?

 

 

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By Sir Hardly Anyone

With Arsenal knocking copy in short supply there have been a few pieces of late in which websites have turned on Edu (who is generally considered the star of the show by a lot of the media in terms of seeing through Arsenal transfers, especially for Brazilians).  Elsewhere there is talk of having White and Saliba at the heart of defence when football returns.

Meanwhile we have been having a look at the way websites re-hash the same tale over and over in order to make it look as if they constantly finding new tales to bring forth.  So for our occasional list of players being mentioned as coming to Arsenal in January, in addition to the 37 players now noted, we’ve added two more columns on the right.

No represents the number of different articles that we’ve seen that have mentioned the transfer.  Of course we can’t track them all, but as a snapshot it gives an idea of the comparative popularity of the story.

Rpt shows the number of times the same website has run the story.   This is an interesting number in that it does give an indication of just how much the website is padding out its content by re-running an old story to make it look like new.

The top transfer man at the moment is Mykhaylo Mudryk with 15 mentions, four of which come from a website repeating itself by rerunning the story.

Journalists copying their own material and re-hashing it as new???? Whoever heard of such a thing!

 

	Player	Position	Current club	Source	No	Rpt
1	Tammy Abraham	Forward	Roma	TBR Caught Offside  HITC Hammers News	4
Update	Marco Asensio	Winger	Real Madrid	Daily Canon  TBR  Caught Offside	3
3	Rodrigo Becao	Defender	Udinese	Arsenal Station, Caught Offside TBR (1) And TBR (2)	4	1
Update	Jude Bellingham	Midfield	Borussia Dortmund	Metro, FoLo, FoLo (2), Team Talk Express	5	1
NEW	Ismael Bennacer	Midfield	AC Milan (ex AFC)	Just Arsenal	1
Update	Moises Caicedo	Midfield	Brighton	FoLo   FoLo (2)	2	1
7	Fares Chaibi	Winger	Toulouse	TBR,  Hard Tackle	2
8	Samuel Chukwueze	Winger	Villarreal	Liverpool Echo, Caught Offside KopTimes	3
Update	Danilo	Midfield	Aston Villa (he’s Brazillian, hence media excitement)	Caught offside,  Give me sport Sport Bible, HammerNews, COffside (2) Express, HITC Arsenal Station  Caught Offside (3) HITC (2)	10	3
10	Memphis Depay	Forward	Barcelona	Sport Bible, TeamTalk  Team Talk (2)	3	1
11	Denzel Dumfries.	Right back	Inter Milan	Chelsea News FoLo	2
12	Endrick Felipe	Striker	Palmeiras	TBR and here (2).  HITC	3	1
Update	Cody Gakpo	Striker	PSV	TBR, Express, TBR (2) HITC  HITC (2)	5	2
14	Alejandro Garnacho.	Winger	Man U	TBR, Sport Bible  TBR (2)	3	1
15	Ilkay Gundogan	Winger	Man C	FoLo	1
NEW	Josko Gvardiol			Fo Lo  FoLo (2)	2	1
17	Piero Hincapie	Centre Back	Bayer Leverkusen	Fo Lo	1
18	N’Golo Kante	Midfield	Chelsea	Football Fancast	1
NEW	Mohammed Kudus	Attack	Ajaz	TBR	1
20	Joakim Maehle	Full back	Atalanta	FoLo	1
NEW	Evan Ndicka	Centre back	Eintracht Frankfurt	FoLo
22	Milinkovic-Savic	Midfield	Lazio	HITC, Caught Offside  The Laziali	3
23	Cesar Montes	Full back	CF Monterrey	Fo Lo	1
Update	Mykhaylo Mudryk	Winger	Shakhtar Donetsk	TBR; FoLo , Newcastle World Mailonline.  Shields Gazette Caught Offside,  Mirror HITC London World FoLo (2) Team Talk HITC (2) Caught Offside (2) TBR (3) Arsenal  Station	15	4
25	Noah Okafor,	Forward	RB Salzburg	FoLo; Sport Witness, Hammers News, HITC Mirror	5
26	Pepe*	Winger	Porto	HITC	1
NEW	Christian Pulisic	Attacking midfield	Chelsea	Teamtalk Express FoLo	3
28	Adrien Rabiot	Midfield	Juventus	FoLo	1
29	Robert Renan	Defender	Corinthians	Arsenal Station	1
30	Cristiano Ronaldo	Forward	Man U	Express	1
NEW	Leroy Sané	Winger	Bayern	Football Fancast	1
32	Milan Skriniar	Centre back	Inter	Football Talk, FoLo, HITC	3
Update	Marcus Thuram	Goalscoring forward	Borussia Monchengladbach	Caught offside,,TBR Sportwitness   SportBible. TBR (2), Give me Sport  Newcastle World	7	1
34	Youri Tielemans	Midfield	Leicester	FoLo, PG Sport Gooner Talk FoLo (2)  FoLo (3)	5	2
35	Facundo Torres	Wing	Orlando City	Express	1
36	Leandro Trossard	Winger	Brighton	Sussex Express	1
37	Zaniolo	Midfield	Roma	Football365,  FoLo	2

 

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