A very interesting story has appeared overnight regarding an alleged Real Betis interest in Fulham’s Aleksandar Mitrovic.
Following their relegation to the Championship, it’s no secret the Cottagers will need to get rid of some assets, and the Serbian forward happens to be one of their more valuable ones.
We saw a story in Mundo Deportivo on Friday morning, claiming Canal Sur, a local TV channel, had reported about the Mitrovic to Betis story.
Unable to find the show this was mentioned on, we did a bit more digging online, eventually stumbling on the first mention of an interest from the La Liga side in the Fulham goalscorer in the past week or so.
It came from a Twitter account @tarugobetico in a conversation, stating ‘there is interest in Mitrovic, but it won’t be easy’.
After this, there’s a 12 hour gap, until fan site SomosBetis claim Mitrovic is ‘close’ to signing for the Spanish club, ‘possibly’ doing so ‘in the next few hours’.
Three hours later, MuchoDeporte jump in, pretty much saying the exact same thing, adding the price would be around €25m.
That’s when MundoDeportivo come in with their article (as did Marca) an hour later, relaying Canal Sur.
Our guess here is that, at point some after MuchoDeporte’s article, the TV outlet reported on it because they also mention the €25m fee, as well as throwing in West Ham and Bayer Leverkusen as competition for Betis.
If you were to believe every single claim made here, it sounds like something is getting done rather quickly behind the scenes, but the fact it all stemmed from someone vaguely mentioning on a personal Twitter account (they aren’t a journalist as far as we can tell) makes things complicated.
The fact neither SomosBetis nor MuchoDeporte made it clear the information was either their own or someone else’s also makes us question where this has all come from, because if you did have your own source on the matter, you would probably say so.
As for the rest, it could easily be that someone at Canal Sur saw the claim from either of those websites and mentioned it briefly on a show, which then caused a snowball effect online.
It’s easily done.
All we’re saying is perhaps wait for one of the bigger outlets either in Spain or in England to report on it (with their own information) before getting excited.
Or, just get excited either way, we can’t tell you what to do.
