straight to your inboxThere was a strange non-transfer tale recently where a Premier League club briefed they were interested in a player they had no interest in signing.The player is represented by the same agency with elite clients already at the Premier League club, who agreed to fuel publicity around the player in an attempt to smoke out an actual interested party.
The uninterested club soon signed a player who occupies the same position as the player they were supposedly interested in signing - but had no interest in signing."Are you watching closely?" Christian Bale intones at the start of The Prestige.
Transfer windows are rife with illusions and Manchester United are often an unwilling part of the act. Only two weeks ago, it was.
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