And yet told people on Reddit he makes his living doing research for gambling companies. So now we're also expected to believe MLS officials would risk leaking information about player transactions to someone who works in gaming. The repercussions of that would cost them their career, at any level.
EDIT: Beyond any of that, I spent two decades in a business where cultivating high-level sources (in NGOs, government, business, sports, or whatever) is a laborious and fragile process that takes months or even years, and requires knowing the craft from years of study. Most reporters can't do it; the idea that a part-timer who covers one sport is better than all of them at it, yet can't get a full-time media gig, is absurd.