Obviously a journalist has no possible way of know how much we'd pay a new signing so why in the days where QAnon liars lead to death and inserection do these fake stories get written, paid for, published, sold to the public? These journalists should be in jail for profiting from repeated conspiracy theories.
IMO sports journalism is part of the root of the todays fake news problems. We all said it 10 or more years ago. People saw that the back pages got away with non-sense so why couldn't the rest of the paper or the new social media spouters.
I hope legislation comes about to distinguish true free speech from those who abuse it for their own horrible ends.
(And I hope its true that we are after Haaland :-) )