If you’re a football fan, transfer rumours are one of those things you either love or hate, but just can’t avoid; either your team is linked with great players and eventually sign some of them, or they’re left at the end of the window with nothing but a last minute loan deal to show for it.

In a transfer window, with millions of rumours and endless paper talks from every newspaper in the world, it can be extremely hard to know who to trust.

But don’t worry, over our 10 articles we are compiling a list of the Top 10 Football Transfer Gurus.

ARTICLE 1: THE WORLD’S MOST INFLUENTIAL FOOTBALL JOURNALIST, GIANLUCA DI MARZIO

Gianluca di Marzio is arguably one of the most influential transfer gurus there is.

In 2015 ESPN made a list of the 50 most influential people in football, the Italian journalist and transfer guru got rated 39 on that list, ahead of folks like Pele, Philippe Blatter and Arsène Wenger!

Primarily he works for Sky Sports, where he mostly writes about the Serie A’s latest transfer news, as well as some of the biggest transfers worldwide.

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ARTICLE 2: FABRIZIO ROMANO, THE MOST RELIABLE TRANSFER GURU WHO HAS PERFECTED JOURNALISTIC STALKING

Do you want a 100% reliable transfer journalist? Then Fabrizio Romano is your guy!

The 26-year-old Italian transfer guru specialises in transfer windows, posting everything around that topic for his 800k followers on Instagram and Twitter.

In spite of his relatively young age, he has a lot of experience. He works and writes for several big newspapers, such as Sky Sports, The Guardian and Cmdotcom; he is also the founder of SOS Fantacalcio.

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ARTICLE 3: ARSENAL TRANSFER GURU AND GOLD CADDY FOR ALAN SHEARER, DAVID ORNSTEIN

This article goes out to all Arsenal fans! David Ornstein is a loved man in North London and has a reputation as the most reliable transfer guru there is for the Gunners.

After 12 years at the1 BBC as a sports correspondent and journalist, David moved to join the Athletic last year. Furthermore, he has a 560k followers on Twitter and Instagram, Twitter being his main platform to post transfer news.

David writes about everything there is to know about Arsenal, and about general news around the Premier League as well. He’s also active on his own podcast called “The Ornstein & Chapman podcast.”

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ARTICLE 4: JOHN CROSS, LEGITIMATE FOOTBALL WRITER OR NOT?

John Cross of The Daily Mirror is arguably one of the most divisive journalists when it comes to writing or talking about football, especially his beloved Arsenal.

With 350k followers on Twitter, he has the perfect social media presence to be able to influence a wide range of opinions and when he does Tweet, it generates massive reactions.

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ARTICLE 5: MARK OGDEN, AWARD WINNING FOOTBALL WRITER

Mark Ogden has travelled a long way since he was hired by his local paper as a trainee sports journalist. He had only just left college and was not really looking for employment but his father had spotted the job opening and the rest, as they say, is history.

Ogden is now the senior football writer with ESPN, one of the most high profile football journalist jobs in the industry and that shows how far he has come since starting his journalistic career with the Rochdale Observer.

Unusually for most football correspondents, Ogden has actually played the game, albeit only for the Rochdale reserves, however, he can boast of playing both alongside and against a young Paul Scholes.

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ARTICLE 6: JAMES PEARCE, LEGENDARY LIVERPOOL CORRESPONDENT

James Pearce started off his journalistic career at the age 15 as a trainee with the local newspaper in Bath, England. Today, Pearce is the chief Liverpool correspondent at The Athletic and one of the most renowned and credible journalists currently in circulation.

Almost every top football writer has a love affair with a particular team and the journalist we are covering in this series are no different. John Cross is an avid Arsenal fan, Mark Ogden is a Manchester United supporter and the subject of this article, James Pearce, is a well known follower of Liverpool.

These writers have done the hard graft on a local level writing about their teams, Cross started off in Islington just a stones throw from Highbury, Ogden was not too far outside of Manchester when he started off at Rochdale and Pearce spent 14 years writing for the Liverpool Echo.

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ARTICLE 7: MOHAMED BOUHAFSI, THE FRENCHMAN AT THE TOP OF FOOTBALL JOURNALISM AT ONLY 28

Mohamed Bouhafsi has built a solid reputation for himself despite the fact that he is just 28 years old.

Generally speaking Journalists build up a reputation over decades but Bouhafsi is living proof that if you provide credible news on a consistent basis then you will be judged on the quality of your work and that age is no barrier to building the respect of your peers.

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ARTICLE 8: ROMEO AGRESTI, THE KING OF EVERYTHING JUVENTUS

Italian journalist Romeo Agresti is one of the exciting young journalists that is building a reputation for himself as a writer that can be trusted, especially when it comes to transfer speculation and the latest updates on a particular team.

Agresti is a follower of Juventus, however, his boyhood club is actually Vicenza and he became a fan of The Bianconeri, mainly because that is who his family supports.

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ARTICLE 9: GEORGE CAULKIN – THE NORTH-EAST ENGLAND FOOTBALL SUPREMO

George Caulkin has been reporting on North East football in England for over two decades and is a unique breed of journalist that is comfortable following more than one team, in fact, he has no issue wanting the best for teams that are regarded as bitter rivals.

Caulkin, like so many other prominent football journalists was then poached by the Athletic where he now plies his trade.

He freely admits that he grew up a Newcastle United fan but has since evolved into a more regional football fan and wants Sunderland and Middlesbrough to succeed as much as he does Newcastle United.

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ARTICLE 10: ALASDAIR GOLD , ACCLAIMED TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR CORRESPONDENT

Like most top clubs, Tottenham has dedicated journalists covering the club and one of the more reliable ones is Football London's, Alasdair Gold.

Gold is not so much about transfer gossip and more about what is actually going on at the club, however, that does not mean that he does not have valuable information to dish out.

What he specialises in is honesty and he refuses to get carried away with any transfer speculation but when he does speak, you listen.

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