January 2012 Transfer Window Build Up

During late December and January there is endless media transfer speculation, some of it is well sourced and accurate, whereas other stories are based on little more than rumour and fan wish lists bundled into fanciful articles or hearsay and conjecture.

The unnamed source is the cornerstone of journalism with plenty of breaking stories made possible this way, however it is also the purge of the headline desperate muck peddlers who hide behind this to imagine any story that they think will attract readers.

Well courtesy of footballtransferleague.co.uk here are the players we have been linked to

Chelsea Transfer Window 2012 They also tell us how accurate the English media is with its stories as you can see most of the prolific websites have a success rate of about 1 in 5 which is hardly inspiring.