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DELETION: @FabrizioRomano on Rafael Leão POSTED: 28 Aug, 16:31:25 DELETED: 17 Sep, 13:12:37 STOOD FOR: 19d 20h 41m CORRECTION: none. Three more Leão posts from 30 Jul, 3 Aug and 27 Aug came down in the same 2m 45s. The claim, in our words: Leão had agreed to join Galatasaray from AC Milan in a package worth more than €45m, ahead of Aston Villa. WHAT SAT EITHER SIDE OF IT: 28 Aug, 15:48: @DiMarzio reports Leão has chosen Galatasaray. 28 Aug, 15:57: @Plettigoal calls it done, €43m plus €2m, 20% sell-on. 28 Aug, 16:21: @FabrizioRomano posts here we go, "package in excess of €45m". Still up. 28 Aug, 16:31: the post goes up. 28 Aug, 22:27: @FabrizioRomano posts Leão confirming the move in his own words. Still up. 30 Aug: AC Milan and Galatasaray announce the transfer. Galatasaray's stock-exchange filing: €38m fixed, 20% of the profit on his next sale, four years at €10m net. 30 Aug, 12:14: @NicoSchira posts the official figure, €38m. 17 Sep, 13:12:37: the post comes down, 18 days after the announcement, with three older Leão posts inside 2m 45s. WHO ELSE REPORTED IT: @DiMarzio, @Plettigoal, @MatteMoretto, @pedrogva6, @RudyGaletti and @NicoSchira all called the move done on 28 Aug. All of those posts are still up, and so is his own here we go from 10 minutes earlier. Every tracked account had €43m to €45m before the official €38m. THEIR RECORD: 33 deletions from 1,828 transfer claims since 1 June. 28 plain removals, 3 corrected reposts, 2 strengthened reposts. 10 came down inside 10 minutes. 12 stood past 24 hours, four of them today. We don't have opinions. We have timestamps. VARdict.co.uk

DELETION: @Mobyhaque1 on an unnamed Arsenal target POSTED: 6 Sep, 16:38:47 DELETED: 6 Sep, 21:35:15 STOOD FOR: 4h 56m 28s CORRECTION: none The claim, in our words: Arsenal had tried to sign a player who was not interested in joining the club. The player was not named. WHAT SAT EITHER SIDE OF IT: 5 Sep, 21:10: @SamiMokbel_BBC: Arsenal's window unpacked, the targets and the finances. 6 Sep, 16:38: the post goes up. 6 Sep, 21:35: the post comes down. Nothing posted since, and no named version has appeared. WHO ELSE REPORTED IT: nobody could. With no player named there is no claim to match. THEIR RECORD: 1 deletion from 2 transfer claims since 2 Sep, when we began tracking the account. Too early for a ratio to mean anything. We don't have opinions. We have timestamps. VARdict.co.uk

Three deletions logged in the last 24 hours. A deletion is never a verdict on its own, so here is what the record shows beside each one. 1. @Santi_J_FM on Manu Koné Posted 3 Sep 12:05:44, deleted 14:08:40. Stood 2h 2m 56s. What the record shows: the identical post from 12:04:19 is still up. A double post, one copy removed. The claim stands. 2. @NicoSchira on Ilias Koutsoupias Posted 4 Sep 10:23, deleted 10:25. Stood 2m. What the record shows: reposted 2 minutes later with the contract corrected from 2030 to 2028 plus an option. A corrected repost, the correction live. 3. @AlfredoPedulla on the Vicenza and Spezia swap. Posted 31 Aug 16:51, deleted 4 Sep 10:03. Stood 3d 17h 12m. What the record shows: the Soleri and Della Morte swap was genuinely being negotiated when posted. It collapsed on 1 Sep, Della Morte joined Bari and Soleri joined Vicenza separately. An accurate report of talks, removed 3 days after the deal went elsewhere. Three deletions, three different shapes: a duplicate, a correction, and a removal after the outcome. The ledger records all of them the same way, with the time up, the time down, and what sat around them. We don't have opinions. We have timestamps. VARdict.co.uk/deletions

DELETION: @ITKSpace on Tom Bischof POSTED: 3 Sep, 15:05:14 DELETED: 3 Sep, 17:28:30 STOOD FOR: 2h 23m 16s CORRECTION: none The claim, in our words: Chelsea were watching Bayern Munich's Tom Bischof, admired by Xabi Alonso, and a fee around €40m (£35m) could secure him if Bayern chose to sell. WHAT SAT EITHER SIDE OF IT: 17 Jul, 07:43: @Plettigoal: Bayern planning their midfield around Kimmich, Pavlovic and Bischof, no further signing intended. 2 Sep, 19:00: the window closed. No club can sign anyone before January. 3 Sep, 11:37: @ITKSpace: Liverpool did not work on a midfielder this summer and will move big in 2027. 3 Sep, 12:27: @ITKSpace: Bischof, short of minutes at Bayern, is on Liverpool's and Manchester United's radar for next summer. Still up. 3 Sep, 15:05: the post goes up. Chelsea now added, with a price. 3 Sep, 17:28: the post comes down. The 12:27 post naming him for Liverpool and United stays. Nothing posted since. WHO ELSE REPORTED IT: Nobody. No tracked account has linked Chelsea with Bischof, and nothing in the English or German press carries it either. THEIR RECORD: 16 deletions from 132 transfer claims since 2 Jun. 12 plain removals, 3 corrected reposts, 1 strengthened repost. 8 came down inside 10 minutes. 1 stood past 24 hours. We don't have opinions. We have timestamps. VARdict.co.uk/deletions

600 registered users. Thank you. All of you. The record started on 1st June. The first person signed up on 3rd July. Since then you have grown into 600, and 361 of you arrived in the last 7 days alone, through the busiest week of the window. What we are building is one word: clarity. Not opinions about who is a good journalist. Not a feeling about who tends to be right. A record you can check: who said it, what time they said it, and what happened next. When a claim stands, we say so. When it is overturned, we say that too. When a post comes down, it stays on the record with the time it went up and the time it came down. 13,833 transfer claims are on that record now. Every one of them timestamped, every one of them checkable by you. This is the beginning of it. There is a great deal more coming. We don’t have opinions. We have timestamps. VARdict.co.uk

CREDIT CHECKED: @SHoomwitter @indykaila credited @SHoomwitter on three stories. We checked all three. Two stand. Arsenal and Julián Álvarez: STANDS. 23 Jan 2026, 14:47, naming Andrea Berta working through intermediaries. That is 139 days before the earliest Arsenal and Álvarez claim anywhere on our record. It predates our record entirely, so we are taking it on the receipt rather than our own data, and anyone can check it. Amit Bhatia and the Barcola deal: STANDS. 27 Aug, 03:13. The only post on our record connecting the new investor group to getting the Barcola deal finalised, and nothing else touches it for 5 days. Manchester City and Enzo Fernández: OVERTURNED Their post is at 20:11 on 11 Aug and its own words are “now confirmed by Fabrizio”. The Fabrizio post quoted inside it went up at 19:11 that evening, one hour earlier. Their first Enzo post that day, at 13:39, credits Sam Lee. One note on the Barcola post: it carries an em dash mid sentence and the phrase “a defensively minded midfielder”. An AI generated tell. Readers can draw their own conclusion about how it was written. It does not move the timestamp, and the timestamp is what we grade. Our record starts on 1 Jun 2026, and on this account 10 Aug 2026. The Álvarez claim sits outside both. We don’t have opinions. We have timestamps. VARdict.co.uk

FURTHER DELETION: @Ekremkonur on El Chadaille Bitshiabu POSTED: 26 Aug, 14:15 DELETED: 1 Sept, 11:32 STOOD FOR: 5d 21h 17m CORRECTION: none The claim, in our words: Lens had asked about Bitshiabu, who was open to a return to Ligue 1 before the window shut. WHAT SAT EITHER SIDE OF IT? 26 Aug, 14:15: the post goes up. 31 Aug, 15:37: @Plettigoal rules out a move to RB Salzburg. 1 Sept, 08:59: @Plettigoal has Galatasaray in advanced talks with RB Leipzig. 1 Sept, 11:31: @Plettigoal calls it done. Galatasaray, loan with an option to buy. 1 Sept, 11:32: the post comes down, one minute later. WHO ELSE REPORTED IT? Nobody we track. It is the only one of four Bitshiabu posts on our record to mention Lens. Off X it was carried in Germany, and it was right: the Lens loan was close and collapsed when the two clubs could not agree final terms. THEIR RECORD: 41 deletions from 1,553 posts since 1 June. 34 plain removals, 7 corrected reposts. 8 came down inside 10 minutes. 25 stood longer than a day. We don’t have opinions. We have timestamps. VARdict.co.uk

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DELETION: @Ekremkonur on Malick Fofana POSTED: 17 Aug, 19:24 DELETED: 1 Sept, 10:58 STOOD FOR: 14d 15h 33m CORRECTION: none The claim, in our words: Roma had agreed personal terms with Malick Fofana, with the final decision depending on the Rodrigo Mora deal. WHAT SAT EITHER SIDE OF IT? 17 Aug, 18:53: @FabrizioRomano reports Roma have agreed personal terms with Fofana and his agents, the decision to follow the Rodrigo Mora verdict. 17 Aug, 19:23: @AlfredoPedulla reports Fofana has given priority to Roma. 17 Aug, 19:24: the post goes up, 31 minutes after @FabrizioRomano and 1 minute after @AlfredoPedulla. 18 Aug, 00:55 and 20 Aug, 13:13: both restate the Roma agreement. Neither post has moved. 1 Sept, 10:46: @David_Ornstein breaks Sunderland’s agreement with Lyon. 1 Sept, 10:50: @FabrizioRomano has him travelling for a medical, €30m plus add-ons. 1 Sept, 10:58: the post comes down, 12 minutes after @David_Ornstein. WHO ELSE REPORTED IT? @FabrizioRomano 31 minutes earlier and @AlfredoPedulla 1 minute earlier, plus four more Roma posts from the same two accounts between 18 and 25 Aug. All still up. The claim was not wrong: Roma did agree terms, then prioritised Rodrigo Mora, and Fofana went to Sunderland instead. THEIR RECORD? 40 deletions from 1,553 posts since 1 June. 33 plain removals, 7 corrected reposts. 8 came down inside 10 minutes. 24 stood longer than a day. We don’t have opinions. We have timestamps. VARdict.co.uk

DELETION: @Ekremkonur on Conrad Harder POSTED: 25 Aug, 15:27 and 28 Aug, 11:40 DELETED: Both at 1 Sept, 09:14 STOOD FOR: 6d 17h 46m and 3d 21h 34m CORRECTION: None The claim, in our words: Lazio were leading the race on a loan with a buy option, then the Lazio talks hit a snag and Leeds United were increasingly possible. WHAT SAT EITHER SIDE OF IT? 18 Aug, 12:10: @Plettigoal has Galatasaray exploring a deal, contact made with RB Leipzig. 25 Aug, 10:39: @Santi_J_FM reports Lazio's loan offer with an option, Leeds and Galatasaray also interested. 25 Aug, 15:27: the first post goes up, 4h 48m later. 28 Aug, 11:40: the second post goes up, moving the story to Leeds. 30 Aug, 07:08: @Santi_J_FM reports an agreement with Strasbourg. @Plettigoal calls it a done deal at 09:15, @MatteMoretto has it as a loan with no option at 11:18. Both posts stay up through all three. 1 Sept, 07:17: @FabrizioRomano says the Strasbourg deal is completed and set to be announced. 1 Sept, 09:14: both posts come down, 1h 57m later. Nothing else was deleted in that window. 1 Sept: RB Leipzig announce it. Strasbourg, season-long loan, no purchase option. WHO ELSE REPORTED IT? @Santi_J_FM, 4h 48m ea up. Our corpus holds 9 posts on ConradHarder from 5 accounts. These two are the only deletions among them. The Leeds line was also reported off X while it was live, so it was a real line that did not win. THEIR RECORD: 39 deletions from 1,551 posts since 1 June. 32 plain removals, 7 corrected reposts. 8 came down inside 10 minutes, which is ordinary churn. 23 stood longer than a day. We don't have opinions. We have timestamps. VARdict.co.uk

DEADLINE EVE: THE BUSIEST DAY WE HAVE EVER RECORDED 495 posts from 57 accounts, 407 of them transfer claims. That is the highest of the 92 days on our record and almost three times our daily average of 167. Six of our seven busiest days ever are the last six days. We don’t have opinions. We have timestamps. VARdict.co.uk

From the developer: A word about money, because we have never mentioned it before, and will not mention it again. VARdict is funded personally. Every post we ingest costs us, every claim we grade costs us, and nobody pays for it but us. The record holds 15,207 posts and 12,924 transfer claims across 57 accounts, starting on 1 June 2026. That start date is the honest limit of what we can tell you. When someone asks who was first on a story that began in March, we have to say we cannot see it. Reaching further back is possible: it just costs money, a few pounds per account per summer. Same with new accounts. Every one we add is a couple of pounds a month, permanently. We will keep doing this either way. Nothing here is going behind a paywall and nothing gets removed. But if the deletions ledger or the race timestamps have been useful to you, you like what we do, and you would like us tracking more accounts and reaching further back than 1st June 2026, you can put something in here: ko-fi.com/vardict We don’t have opinions. We have timestamps.

Bradley Barcola to Liverpool: who was first to each stage £106m guaranteed, £17m in add-ons, five years, the No 29 shirt. Confirmed by Liverpool at 14:00 today. Here is who got there first at each stage. The link: we are not awarding it. @FabrizioRomano and @Plettigoal both say they had Liverpool's interest in early May. Our record starts on 1 June. We cannot see it, so we will not claim it. Personal terms: @KrrishFT, 1 Jun, 18:26. Liverpool in direct contact with the agent, wages and terms not an issue. Formal talks: @JamesWathland, 15 Jul, 16:07. Liverpool would approach PSG the following week. Player agreed in principle: @DaveOCKOP, 28 Jul, 16:26, relaying L'Équipe. That break was L'Équipe's, off X, and we time X posts only. The fee: @alex_crook for @talkSPORT, 29 Aug, 06:00. £106m plus £17m add-ons, exactly as announced. @David_Ornstein posted the same figures at 07:50, 110 minutes later. The structure, earlier: @_pauljoyce, 27 Aug, 08:39. Guaranteed fee just above £100m, about £20m in add-ons. Not the exact numbers, but the right shape 2 days before anyone else split it. Medical booked: @FabrizioRomano, 29 Aug, 10:01. For the record: @NicoSchira had €125m on 14 Aug, exactly the guaranteed fee, 15 days before anyone. They then posted €165m at 09:42 on 27 Aug and €150m at 10:01. The confirmed package is €145m. We don't have opinions. We have timestamps. VARdict.co.uk

DELETIONS LOGGED @Anfieldlnsider deleted 11 posts in 20 minutes this afternoon. 12:17 to 12:37 BST, newest first, working backwards through 16 days of their timeline. Here is every one of them, in our words. 12:17, up 14h 39m: interest in goalkeeper Bart Verbruggen, alongside a thread about Lucca Brughmans. 12:20, up 1d 11h: speculation that Cody Gakpo and Alexis Mac Allister could both join Manchester City for a large fee. 12:21, up 1d 13h: a strong chance Rayan moves in January, and a question about whether his release clause drops then. 12:23, up 3d 2h: a joke that the club should bid €10m for Trent Alexander-Arnold purely to spite both parties. 12:25, up 4d 23h: a fantasy eleven of perceived overachievers, with Roberto Martinez as manager. 12:26, up 6d 2h: an argument that the new head coach should be given time. 12:26, up 6d 2h: a comparison of that head coach’s system to Klopp’s, noting Fabinho and Oxlade-Chamberlain took time to adjust. 12:29, up 8d 23h: Manchester City interested in PSG’s Ibrahim Mbaye. 12:32, up 10d 17h: Bournemouth willing to sell Alex Scott, Chelsea and Manchester City most interested, fee expected to be high. 12:35, up 12d 15h: the Víctor Muñoz signing covers left wing depth, so the focus should move to central midfield. 12:37, up 16d 13h: Manchester City only lukewarm on a target, another club not lukewarm. Two of the 11 were transfer claims: Mbaye and Alex Scott. Those two are on our ledger. The other nine were opinion, jokes and squad talk, so they are not on it and never were. No corrected version went back up on any of the 11. We do not know why, and we are not guessing. They came down in exact reverse order of posting, about one every two minutes. Note the handle: it carries a lowercase L. We don’t have opinions. We have timestamps. VARdict.co.uk