Every claim.
Reviewed.
The reliability record for football transfer journalism. Claims go under review: they either stand or get overturned. A journalist's record is their grade.
What VARdict does
Every transfer window runs on the same argument: whose sources are reliable, and whose are just loud. VARdict settles it with evidence instead of reputation. Every specific, checkable transfer claim a journalist makes ("Player X will sign for Club Y") is logged the moment it's posted, tied to its author, and resolved once the real outcome is known.
Nothing is deleted when the picture changes: a claim is re-judged and a new, timestamped version is recorded, so a journalist's record always reflects the most current available judgment. The result is a public, permanent reliability grade for every journalist we track, built entirely from their own claim history.
Log In to VARdictWhat everything means
The whole site borrows its vocabulary from Video Assistant Referee officiating: a claim is made in real time, without full information, and is later reviewed against the outcome. What every badge and status means:
Claim statuses
A claim starts UNDER REVIEW. It's resolved STANDS if it came true, OVERTURNED if it didn't, or SUBJECTIVE for a partial credit call (right club, wrong fee). A claim that never resolves either way simply PLAYS ON and isn't counted toward accuracy.
The tiers
Bands of the TrueRank itself, from S (the elite race-breakers) down to C (consistently beaten to stories), so a tier can never sit out of order on the league table. A tier measures who breaks transfer news first, not accuracy: that is what the Reliability score is for. An account with fewer than 10 races is UNDER REVIEW rather than banded.
Scoop
A Scoop means this journalist was first to report a specific stage of a transfer, ahead of at least one other tracked rival. Repeating someone else's report never wins one, and neither does relaying a club's own official announcement: once the club has spoken, everybody has the story at once.
Scoop · Called It is the upgrade a scoop earns when the transfer happened: the move completed to the exact club this journalist was first to report, verified against the club's own announcement.
Deal stages
Every transfer thread is tracked through its milestones, in order: Linked (a rumoured interest, or talks and bids short of an agreement), Agreed · Contract (terms settled with the player) and Agreed (the clubs have settled it). Being first to report an earlier stage doesn't take credit away from whoever is first to report a later one, they're different milestones in the same story.
Done deal is deliberately not one of them. A completed transfer is announced by the club, so nobody can break it. It is our own verdict on the thread, taken from verified fact rather than from what any journalist wrote, which is why no amount of "here we go" puts a claim there.
Disputed exclusive
Shown when a journalist calls their own claim "exclusive" but another tracked journalist had already reported the same stage of the same transfer shortly before them.
Clickbait
Shown when a post links out to an external page but never names the player it's about in its own text, the reveal is hidden behind the link.
Claims originally posted in Spanish, Italian, French, or Portuguese show an automatic English translation alongside the original text. For the full detail on how accuracy is calculated, see how a VARdict is calculated once you're logged in.