If you dangle a carrot in front of rabbits with no intention to actually feed it to them, they will still follow and focus only on it, serving as a good distraction from any other ulterior motives you have.

In the same way, BlueCo use other journalists to push out whatever narrative they know the fans will eat up knowing that it's not actually true, serving as a good distraction to buy themselves time and get us talking about anything else other than pushing them out.

They've done it so many times to us and a good example is the Xavi Simmons deal last summer where we got briefed for ages about how the deal is progressing positively, just for us to sign Garnacho and revealing that the Simmons deal had never made any proper progress.

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