Miguel Delaney ✓

@MiguelDelaney

Chief football writer at @independent. 🇮🇪🇪🇸 Author of 'States of Play': https://t.co/uunKI0KNvJ Miguel.Delaney@independent.co.uk

284 074Followers

5 411Following

283 073Posts total

2.2MViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

4 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.

Median views66 754this account6 139median for 100K–1M

Reach, %23.50%this account2.61%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %0.34%this account1.39%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	66 754	6 139	10.9×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	23.50%	2.61%	9.00×
Engagement rate	0.34%	1.39%	0.25×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

2.1M2 Sep

69.8K

20.2K

63.7K

Last 4 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.28%2 Sep

0.68%

0.41%

0.14%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 1.39%.

What the audience does

Likes62.3%5 164 in total

Reposts9.0%744 in total

Replies1.6%134 in total

Quotes3.5%293 in total

Bookmarks23.6%1 952 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

Latest posts

@MiguelDelaney amazing how none of this had been picked up when city or chelsea have been doing it yet spurs and few other clubs start loosening the strings its all of a sudden a big thing 63.7K views · 76 likes · 0 reposts · 11 replies 02 Sep 2026 @MiguelDelaney Underrated points, Miguel. As ever, you never disappoint when covering issues off the pitch. So many spoilt united fans don’t understand anything about the credit industry or finance in general and think they know more than Sir Jim on this topic. 20.2K views · 81 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies 02 Sep 2026 @MiguelDelaney @clivepafc Well done for flagging this. The ROI on private credit SPVs that generate negligible cash flow is unsustainable as a far as capital attraction goes. Redemption requests necessitate liquidity reserves that have to be sourced from elsewhere. Tricking time 69.8K views · 462 likes · 10 reposts · 6 replies 02 Sep 2026 EXCL: there is growing concern at just how much of a record transfer window was paid for with private credit, at a time of real pressure for such markets The state of the game report is anticipated to outline a huge liquidity problem in English football https://t.co/2s97gNpHE2 2.1M views · 4.5K likes · 733 reposts · 116 replies 02 Sep 2026