Alex Crook was one of a very few voices knocking down the Dunk to Leicester rumours a year ago and he is to be trusted on this too, as he will actually have spoken to people - unlike the clickbait merchants, who won't risk having their 'stories' demolished.
The problem here is that there is a very persuasive logic behind it. Dunk is known to have been a Chelsea fan as a boy, Chelsea need new central defenders, Dunk is no longer front and centre of the promotional material on the club shop - it all fits! If there was an invisible cat on that...
The line about Dunk's absence from the promotion material is the giveaway as to where some of this Sun story came from - ie here on NSC. Dan King's father-in-law is a season-ticket holder in WSL and has no doubt passed on the gossip.
You jest, of course, but any journalist worth his/her salt given a temporary brief to look after news about their local football club would have the press officer's number (or know how how to get it) and have got a quote from him (even as 'a club source'). It's a massive discourtesy to their...
Last season's 'Dunk to Leicester' stories were fuelled by loose talk and wishful thinking from an agent who was trying to push through a move to us for a central defender he represented. As it was we signed two central defenders anyway.
As for Dunk's absence from marketing, maybe they're...
The point was surely that it was Leicester's second season back in the Premier League after ten seasons out of it, including a visit to League One. They would have got less than £20m in parachute payments back in 2004, so 'PL wealth' was much less of a factor in their title win than good...