paulwalker71 wrote:I was rather shocked when I just looked to see I've been on this site since 2005
At every stage of those 17 years, there has been a whole string of posters claiming to be "in the know."
A few actually DID know, but the majority have known little or nothing beyond what is commonly known by anyone with an eye on Twitter and other media.
I guess its one of those things that quite a lot of people probably do have personal relationships with those employed by the club. Officials, staff and players are all pretty normal folk and will no doubt air their opinions like any other work place, so I can quite believe when people claim to be "in the know", but most of it is not going to be the exclusive that many believe it to be.