Yeah tell me what it is then? I would like to know what convince you that much when there is zero quote to back up their ‘’Theory”. If you can answer that, I could be fall in love with them.
Dude at least read the article, they have broken down everything from papers to interviews and how the numbers are changed.
They are just translators, they don't report any news as their own unless they get some interviews from one of those agents. They wrote that article, so it is made up by them which includes various reports from Portuguese media, consistent numbers, how Sporting owner interview was twisted, how Fletcher didn't even know basic numbers and how Spurs bid that was rejected was twisted into "price for Spurs was 45 million + addons".
Like I said, you won't change the mind as you are too much into "Tier 1" thing, so good luck believing all the propaganda nonsense by Woodward.
They translate foreign papers and calls out BS where people starting using "x foreign media reported this" when reality is x media use Sun as the source. They are excellent site to clean out BS during transfer window, especially for what's reported by Spanish, Portuguese, Italian media. They give clear picture of what's reported, what's the source for that article whether it's their own source or they are using English media as source who in turn used foreign media as source when in reality there is no starting point for particular news and papers like Sun, Mirror, Daily mail just randomly makes up "according to X media".