No chance in earth we have gone to Italy to talk to about 5 teams about 2-3 of each of their players, which ultimately means the leak to the press from a "scout" seems very much a planted story in the Italian media by us via an intermediary with great contacts their, given one of the blokes with him is a "super agent broker of deals" then it's easy to read this entire thing as a smokescreen design to keep the press away from the 1, max 2 players we are actually after.
No need to do that if it wasn't a big profile player IMO.