Probably because the hdm actually has a contact at the club while others are putting two and two together and getting five. He's probably met the allams and indicated a willingness to join, so papers are reporting it. Might even be his agent seeing if anyone else will order better terms.
Who in the pl is offering him work in London? Palace think he isn't a big enough name and no one else has a vacancy?
Has Ehab stopped looking at other options I wonder. If the Slut doesn't end up here I'd suspect it was all just a delaying tactic so we don't have to start paying anyone yet.
I thought HDM are the last to know about stuff these days. Doesnt Ehab talk directly with Sky and Yorkshire Post?
I did have the vacant job at Palace in mind but it was a just flippant post about the North/London divide that has a negative effect on the recruitment of players and managers, especially in the North East.
HDM , just copy and paste from other articles in other papers, take today's offerings: One report starts with "reports emerged" then uses information the star and independent used yesterday. The other is pretty much a word for word summary of Slutsky taken from an Internet articles like FM , ouside of the boot and the independent