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Normally, transfer experts à la Fabrizio Romano and Florian Plettenberg are in a battle to see who gets the most important information first and can then make it public. Yesterday, however, things escalated a bit.
After Plettenberg made a post saying that the whole business had become a bit "ridiculous," a user tagged Fabrizio Romano, who responded immediately.
Plettenberg’s reply was not long in coming either.
Romano then fired back with a screenshot of his counterpart.
After a user tagged Fabrizio Romano again in a different context, the situation escalated completely.
Fabrizio Romano accused Florian Plettenberg of spreading fake news, prompting Plettenberg to strike back once again.
Plettenberg accused the Italian of sometimes giving his "here we go" based only on probabilities and not on confirmed sources. He also wrote that Romano often posts results before the end of matches in order to be ahead of everyone else. After that, things got pretty personal.
And it just kept going. Romano accused Plettenberg of previously asking him for tips on gaining more followers and looking up to him as a role model—while now trying to present himself as an expert. Romano also wrote that Plettenberg had opened this can of worms and that he would not respond any further.
Plettenberg then condemned the threat to leak private messages, emphasized his own professional conduct, and declared that Romano was no longer a role model for him.
It remains to be seen how the situation will develop from here. At the moment, however, the sides appear to be deeply entrenched.
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