Slim wrote:Ever get the feeling we're trolling them on a 5D chess level. When there were stories about Pep moving on we were rumoured with being interested in Amorin. Add to that Slabby, Sanchez, Pogba, Sancho and Fred and I think we just get these stories out there so they can swoop in and "steal" our targets, while Mansour laughs on a pile of money about them falling for another one.
I think we've been doing it all along.
Fred, Pogba and Sanchez all immediately spring to mind, but there are loads more.
The raggy fans were crowing over nicking Amorim from under our noses, until it dawned on them he was another false messiah.
If you look at our purchases, there's never much media coverage of them signing until they do. Conversely, when the media are full of us chasing someone, they invariably don't sign, and more often than not end up at the rags. You'd have thought the rags would have got wise to it by now, but they're so desperate to get one over on us, any sort of logic goes out of the window.
All very entertaining.