Glossary
The phrases that come up around transfers, explained alongside the actual data.
What does "Here we go" mean?
It is the phrase Fabrizio Romano, a journalist covering football transfers, adds to a post when he judges that a move is effectively done. It comes earlier than the signing of a contract or an official announcement.
He uses it to mean that the clubs and the player's side have agreed and only the paperwork remains. Because it is not the official announcement itself, a deal can still fall apart afterwards. This site counts how often that has happened.
What is a "here we go soon"?
Adding "soon" means he has not made the call yet — he expects to be able to say "Here we go" shortly. It is not an announcement that the move is done.
Posts that only say "soon" are excluded from the accuracy figure here. Counting announcements that were never made as right or wrong would inflate the number.
What do "deal off" and "collapsed" mean?
These are the phrases Romano uses when a move that had come together falls apart. A deal is only marked as collapsed here when he himself said so in a post. There are 39 so far.
A gap in a third-party database is not treated as evidence. Loans and very recent moves are often registered late, and counting those as collapsed would be wrong.
How reliable is it?
Of the 2,401 announcements collected since January 2019, 2,073 have been checked against career records, and 98.1% of those went through.
Every judgement links to the page it was verified against, so the number can be checked rather than taken on trust.
What is this site?
It collects every post by Romano containing "Here we go" since January 2019 and checks whether each move actually happened, against career histories on Wikidata and English Wikipedia.
Post text is not reproduced; posts are shown through the official X embed. This is an independent personal project, not affiliated with Fabrizio Romano or his employers.
Transfer terms used on this site
The contract types and money terms that appear in the tables and in Romano's posts. These are the general meanings; individual deals can have their own conditions.
- Permanent transfer
- The player moves to the new club for good, usually for a fee paid to the old club. The player signs a new contract with the buying club.
- Loan
- The player joins another club for a set period, usually a season, and then goes back. The original club keeps the player's contract.
- Loan with option to buy
- A loan where the borrowing club may make the move permanent for a fee agreed in advance. It is a choice, not a requirement.
- Loan with obligation to buy
- A loan where the borrowing club must buy the player at the end. The obligation often only kicks in once agreed conditions are met, such as a number of appearances.
- Free transfer
- The player joins without a transfer fee, usually because their contract with the old club has run out.
- New contract
- The player extends their deal with their current club. Nobody moves, so this site counts it as completed only if the player is still at the club after the next transfer window.
- Appointment
- A manager or coach taking up a job, rather than a player moving.
- Add-ons
- Extra payments on top of the fixed fee, paid only if conditions are met, such as appearances or trophies. A fee "including add-ons" counts them in the total.
- Sell-on clause
- A share of a future sale that goes back to the selling club if the player is sold on later. Depending on the deal, the share is of the whole fee or only of the profit.
- Release clause
- A fixed amount written into a contract. If another club pays it, the player's club cannot block the move.
- Undisclosed
- The fee was not made public.