A purported transfer of Nader Jindaoui to FC Bayern caused quite a stir on social media. The strange thing about it: there was absolutely no truth to the story. YouTuber Alex Dimakos had deliberately fabricated the entire rumor to test how quickly a false transfer report could spread online.
The claim was that Jindaoui would be moving from TSG Hoffenheim II to Bayern Munich’s reserve team. With his experiment, Dimakos wanted to find out whether other users and content creators would repost the supposed news without verifying it.
To do this, he created an account on X and modeled its design after Fabrizio Romano’s well-known transfer reports. Dimakos crafted a supposed “Here we go” graphic featuring Jindaoui and added text about the allegedly imminent move to Munich.
The reactions apparently surprised even the creator himself. “Not a single person in the comments says the image is fake,” Dimakos explained in his video.
Fake rumor spreads rapidly
According to Dimakos, it took less than an hour for a French Bayern fan site to pick up on the supposed transfer report. By then, the completely fabricated rumor had already made the leap from the original fake account to other channels.
Dimakos then shifted his experiment to TikTok. There, the story spread even more widely. According to the YouTuber, the related videos garnered around 900,000 views across platforms.
The alleged “Here we go” post also reached about 300,000 views, according to Dimakos. However, he himself admitted that the clicks for that post had been purchased.
Nevertheless, the rumor gained such momentum that it eventually even reached Jindaoui himself.
Jindaoui Has to Deny Transfer to Bayern
The 29-year-old ultimately felt compelled to respond publicly to the speculation. “There’s a rumor on social media that I’m transferring to FC Bayern,” Jindaoui explained.
He had noticed that numerous users were generating reach with the supposed news. However, there is no truth to a pending move to Munich. “But it’s not true,” Jindaoui clarified.
With that, Dimakos had achieved one of the goals he had set for himself. “The rumor got so big that even Nader is talking about it,” the YouTuber explained.
He then put an end to the experiment once and for all and confirmed that he had made up the entire transfer story: “No. It’s a lie. My rumor.”
The case impressively demonstrates how quickly alleged transfer news can spread across social media when it appears professionally produced. In this instance, a familiar visual style and a sensational claim were enough for the story to be picked up by other accounts and ultimately even reach the player in question.
For Bayern fans, the main takeaway is clear: A move by Jindaoui to the German record champions was never part of this story—the supposed transfer rumor was part of a deliberately staged social media experiment.