Once again, exciting gaming industry conversations are back! Season 5 of Bet It Drives, powered by GR8_TECH, starts with one of football’s most recognizable journalists in the passenger seat. Yes, Fabrizio Romano has been chosen based on his reputation for breaking football’s biggest stories before almost anyone else.
Romano joins Yevhen Krazhan, CSO at GR8_TECH and host of Bet It Drives, for a ride through Lisbon that goes behind “Here we go” and into the sources, relationships, and instincts that drive his work.
During the busiest transfer windows, that can mean more than 100 posts a day across multiple platforms, one thing has stayed non-negotiable: “I want my information to be free,” Romano says, explaining why he has repeatedly rejected the idea of putting his transfer news behind a subscription.
In Season 5, Episode 1, Romano gets into different topics thorough a 17 minutes dialogue: why Jose Mourinho is “the manager” for him and why Cristiano Ronaldo would be his next pick for GR8_TECH’s major football partnership; how his source network actually works, from trusted contacts who need only one call to stories that can take days to verify; the career he almost chose instead; 100+ posts in a single day and what it takes to feed X, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and other platforms during the transfer window; why football news became a 24/7 business and how social media changed the rules for traditional journalism; the Cristiano Ronaldo story he almost broke first; how Fabrizio decides who to trust and why some sources need one call while others need two, three, four, or five checks, and where the biggest scoops actually come from.
“The transfer market looks like a puzzle in my mind. You need to put the pieces at the right time and the right position,” Romano states.
For Krazhan, the ability to combine speed, trust, and judgment is exactly what makes Romano such a fitting guest to open the new season. “Fabrizio has built something bigger than a football news account. He has changed how millions of people expect information to reach them: instantly, directly, and with a name behind it that they trust. We wanted to understand the person making those calls: how he decides who to believe, when to move fast, when to wait, and what happens when being first and being right are competing against each other,” Krazhan explains.
Watch or listen to Season 5 Episode 1 of Bet It Drives on YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts.