And you, in turn, should accept that some might point out you might be wrong to dismiss people as promptly as you sometimes do.
An interesting thing to remember on the "daily quota" thing is that the Pitt-Brooks and Golds of this world are very, very transparent about when they are making up the page space with cycling rumours versus laying down a specific set of things heard/fed. They are very different. Ornstein is also very credible.
As for those dismissing the lack of quotes, that will often happen to protect a source.
I think it is far too easy to write it all off as "journos trumping", fanciful even. Let's face it, been pretty quiet the past few days, proving that the feed can cease when necessary and the beat scribblers don't necessarily have to fill space daily.
So I agree with most of this
For me the issue is the nuance between "had/having a conversation with x" and "Spurs are trying/close to hiring x"
- e.g. I just filled a role in my team, I took several calls (informationals) with people I was never going to hire, part professional courtesy, part I was going to work with them in other ways, part I would cross parts with them in the future.
- Perfect comparison of this is Klinsmann who has been whoring himself for the job since Jose got fired, he's claimed he spoke to Levy, I'm quite sure he instigated it and Levy took the call very similar to my scenario above.
Somebody runs that story and it's "Spurs pursuing Klinsmann for manager role", did they have a conversation? = yes, is he even on the bottom of the list? = no, add in the agents and the media folks who are sensationalists (not saying the better ones) and you have an outright circus.
Again, to me the big fudge up continues to be the clubs lack of guidance, we can't answer every rumour but we should not allow rampant speculation that we are close or have been close to go on for months (it creates the perception that everyone has here, either no plan, plan fudged up or just chaos). No idea why it would be hard to say "our DoF will be in role on July 1, his first priority will be closing on the final list of manager candidates we are presently considering"