I do agree with this article. For example consider when we signed Heitinga, Distin and Bilyaletdinov. None of these names were actually mentioned as rumours at all. However another 100+ names were mentioned and we didnt go near any of them.
Newspapers have to make stories to sell papers as its their job. Everton are very good at keeping things quiet regarding transfers so basically the journalists will make up a story based on putting 2 and 2 together and 99 times out of 100 it will make 5.
For example the metro said today that Everton lead the chase the Adam Johnson. They would have worked this out because we now have a bit of money and just did a deal with City so it would seem logical for this to happen. The fact is its just total fabrication to put a story in their paper based on rumour and no evidence. I could easily make up a story such as this.....
Everton to hijack Sunderland bid for Steven Fletcher, it would be as logical as the Johnson story as we have money and perhaps are short upfront. Its just rubbish though and that is exactly what the papers do.
There are only 3 sources for information that I would consider to have any kind of reality and those are Goat, Goat's mar and Goat's sister
