Football rumours, a hidden goldmine niche?

So like many people i'm a huge fan of club football, one of the most interesting points are the summer transfer windows and winter transfer windows. Trying to see what ultra-secretive football clubs players are going to be bought or sold.

I noticed something weird going on used by professional sites, they would create content linking players to club every single day of the transfer window and weekly outside of it.
So at most top clubs would sign 8 players in a window, they would create a new rumour every day of the transfer window. That's 84 players, impossible for that many to happen but because fans are interested they still CONSUME the content.

What makes this interesting is because each player is unique, they can continuously generate long string keywords which people are organically searching for.
" First name, Last name transferring to Club name."

Also if these rumours getting going(regardless of truth) Football fans are always keen to discuss or debate the rumours. In a way in can create something rare for a site, word of mouth traffic.

• Example

Kristof Terreur is a well trusted Journalist in the industry, was just talking today about these two websites creating such content without any source whatsoever



We can these rumours have hyper increased for this specific search term



And here's the juicy part, during this period of time on the official club website they normally have a media watch blog for the best ( NON-FACTUAL) rumours.




You can see in a short period of time how something that isn't currently true has been pushed in a short period of time. If you could ctach hyper traffic continuously on a site, wouldn't this be an easily profitable site?

as rumour has it, true

Yes everybody will be very much eager to know others information

good idea.... keep it quiet though

The rumors topic works for every niche where people are obsessed with something like sports, movies, fashion etc.

rumors niche is a good one for sure, a lot of people are interested in it

Yes it's a great niche. Football fans will gobble them up even if they're false. And no one will penalize you for putting out fake news either.

You can post them on reddit for maximum effect though mods will probably remove unknown sources.