Bet It Drives with Fabrizio Romano: What happens before “here we go”

GR8_Tech’s Yevhen Krazhan takes football journalist Fabrizio Romano for a ride through Lisbon and shares the conversation.

Key takeaways:

• Fabrizio Romano stars in Episode 1 of Season 5 of GR8_Tech’s Bet It Drives, hosted by Yevhen Krazhan in Lisbon.  
• Despite publishing over 100 posts a day across social platforms during busy windows, Romano maintains his strict rule that his information must remain free.  
• The episode covers how his source network operates, requiring anywhere from a single call to multiple verification checks depending on the contact.  
• The company invites to watch or listen to the season premiere across YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts. 

Press release.-  Fabrizio Romano built his reputation by breaking football’s biggest stories before almost anyone else. Bet It Drives is back for season 5, and episode 1 puts one of football’s most recognisable journalists in the passenger seat.

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. But despite the scale, 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, Fabrizio Romano gets into:

• Why José 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
• Where the biggest scoops actually come from.

“The transfer market looks like a puzzle in my mind,” Romano says. “You need to put the pieces at the right time and the right position.”

For Krazhan, the ability to combine speed, trust, and judgement 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,” said Krazhan, the host of Bet It Drives. “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.”

Frequently asked questions (FAQs)

• What is Bet It Drives? Bet It Drives is a show produced by GR8_Tech, featuring CSO Yevhen Krazhan taking figures on a drive to discuss industry insights and behind-the-scenes stories.  
• Why does Fabrizio Romano keep his transfer news free? Romano states that he wants his information to be freely accessible to everyone, which is why he continually rejects putting his reporting behind a subscription paywall.  
• How many social media posts does Fabrizio Romano make during transfer windows? During the busiest transfer windows, Romano publishes more than 100 posts a day across multiple platforms, including X, Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube.