- May 17, 2018
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Absolutely believe this. Kane saga (and others) exposed a lot of football journalism for what it is. A bunch of spin and sometimes downright lies for clicks, which even the most sceptical of us can get drawn in to lapping up.
de Ligt talking about turning us down was eye-opening, and we probably only hear about a fraction of transfer 'attempts' or 'conversations' that go on - but it seems like journos take a small fraction of them that they think are likely to generate the most clicks, and spin it. I can imagine their boss saying they have to get several articles out of one small snippet.
Part of the issue is that people base their entire perception of the truth on not only those articles, but the velocity of them. Like SSN spinning the Sissoko thing as if it was last-minute drama, and he did a u-turn on the M6 after getting a call. Sissoko himself, and others, have referred (or inferred) to that deal being started weeks before, and being sat at Hotspur way confused as to how the Everton reports were days out of date.
We already have seen Paratici seemingly gifting strategic dribbles of info to the likes of Romano, whilst then going and signing a seemingly random player hours later that no one knew was happening.