Twitter is just beautiful. This place is a self-sustaining fire pit of idiocy. Apart from all the usual 12 yo crap out there I noticed a new trend that has to do more with the journos but that is taking twitter by storm nonetheless since they will take anything for a source.
Any nobody journalist (especially from other countries like Italy, Spain or Germany) who wants to write a piece that includes ''news'' about Liverpool will invent the most stupid rumour ever. Something that doesn't even make basic sense in terms of the actual positions we need to reinforce or the style of that player compared to ours. After he wrote that, all he has to do is add a sentence along the line of ''but Liverpool finds the *insert whatever price tag you want here* off-putting''. The piece comes out, the twitter geniuses pounce on it and instantly go for a ride on the twitter fsg-out merry-go-round.
Concretely this can look like that (imaginary example but I'm sure that if you look you'll find something even more ridiculous):
Step-1: ''Liverpool are interested in Stefan de Vrij and have contacted Inter. However, the club finds the 50M price-tag the Italian club has set to be off-putting''
Step-2:A bunch of people on twitter pounce on the news and instantly get mad that we are not going to complete the signing of De Vrij because ''FSG does not want to pay 50M''. Nobody asks himself why are we even linked with another CB, why we would we want De Vrij, do we even have a need for another CB, etc. But one thing nobody forgets to do tho is being mad and writing a whole lot of fsg-out nonsense.
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