I'm not sure a manager sits looking at twitter and suddenly tells his chairman to bang an offer in because Hull City are linked with players.Leaks to the press. team B who were competing against us ramp up their interest and we lose out. Can imagine it happens a lot. Must have happened a bit last year because every Turkish journalist linked us to someone last year but its radio silence largely this
Decent managers have their list in with the CEO before the seasons ended and decent agents let every CEO in the world know that someone is in for their player in case someone wants to offer him more money. The agent will do that with or without public knowledge