BBC Sport are pushing an ‘Exclusive’ on Friday morning, which is that Lewis Hall wants to leave Newcastle United and join Manchester United.
This is at the very top of their ‘Transfer Gossip’ page, the lead story.
The trouble is that so many people still think of BBC Sport as the one you can trust.
The one that doesn’t have to rely on putting out any old nonsense where they don’t care whether it is true or not to get attention and clicks, or where they even know for sure it is just completely fabricated. BBC Sport publicly funded and in such a privileged position.
That has all changed though, the BBC Sport bosses willing to sell their soul and put out any nonsense. Their feeble Transfer Gossip page is full of cringeworthy made up nonsense from many of the very most unreliable and untrustworthy sources.
The Transfer Gossip page is also the BBC Sport page that gets the most visitors. If you are outside the UK then you are served with adverts when you visit BBC Sport pages, it isn’t difficult to understand why they are willing to push the most embarrassing stories that they know are rubbish.
Which brings us back to Lewis Hall wanting to leave Newcastle United and sign for Manchester United.
This is the top transfer story that BBC Sport are pushing on Friday morning.
The Lewis Hall desperate to leave Newcastle United and join Manchester United is an ‘Exclusive’ and has been published by…The Sun.
It gets better, or should I say, worse.
The ‘Exclusive’ comes from Samuel Luckhurst at The Sun.
I had never heard of him but it turns out he is the ‘Manchester United Correspondent’ for The Sun.
He claims to have inside knowledge of what Lewis Hall is thinking and what the 21-year-old wants to do, what he intends to do.
In the lengthy piece with all kinds of nonsense trying to justify the idea of Lewis Hall desperate to leave Newcastle United and claimed to have fallen out with Eddie Howe, nowhere does he even mention that Lewis Hall is a lifelong United fan, that is NEWCASTLE United, because of course throughout the article Samuel refers to Newcastle and United. As in, Lewis Hall wants to leave ‘Newcastle’ for ‘United’, not that he (The Sun writer) is biased of course.
Whatever Lewis Hall is thinking, we can be sure of one thing, this Man U bloke from The Sun doesn’t know.
The irony of this Manchester United sycophant writing ‘Newcastle finished a pitiful 12th in the Premier League…’ when only a year earlier Man U would have finished 17th if not beating Villa on the final day of the 2024/25 season and ending up 15th.
He follows it up with ‘…slapdash spending has put Newcastle under pressure to cash in…’ on Lewis Hall, this coming only a couple of days after it was confirmed that 26-year-old Jadon Sancho was leaving Man U on a free transfer, five years after he agreed a £138m deal when arriving from Borussia Dortmund in 2021 with a £73m transfer fee and £65m in wages over his five-year contract. This is Jadon Sancho who has ended up starting only 41 Premier League matches for Man U and who is now leaving for nothing. Sancho just one of numerous failures that Manchester United have been guilty of ‘slapdash spending’ of the highest order on.
The truth is out there somewhere BUT you are far less likely to find it on BBC Sport these days.