About

What this is, and what it isn’t

TransferSignal is a personal, non-commercial project that aggregates publicly reported football transfer rumours and scores each one with a transparent, reproducible formula. It is a data-and-modelling demonstration, not a news outlet.

How a probability is made

A language model reads the prose of a report and structures it into fields — who, from where, to where, what stage. It never picks the number. The probability is then a deterministic weighted blend of source reliability, deal stage, corroboration, and squad fit, and every input is shown on each rumour’s page. It is an opinion-with-a-formula, not a measured frequency or a prediction you should rely on.

Where the data comes from

  • — Squad and player data: Wikidata (CC0 public domain).
  • — Market values, form and completed deals: the Transfermarkt-derived public dataset.
  • — Rumours: headlines and short excerpts from public news feeds, each linked back to its source.

Important limits

  • Automated and imperfect. Claims are extracted by software and can be wrong, out of date, or mis-attributed. Nothing here is verified fact.
  • Not affiliated. This project is not connected to, endorsed by, or a source for any club, league, player, agency, Transfermarkt, or any news organisation. Club and player names are used for factual identification only.
  • Not advice. Nothing here is betting, investment, or financial advice, and it should not be used to make any wager or decision.
  • No warranty.The site is provided “as is”, without warranty of any kind, and the author accepts no liability for reliance on it.
  • Corrections. If something about a named individual is wrong, it can be corrected or removed on request — see the privacy note.