It's not just Sherwood claiming that meetings haven't taken place; it's also now, by very strong implication, the club; at least with the candidates themselves. Though, as others have said, phone calls and emails with the candidates have not been excluded; neither have meetings with agents....
All of this is perfectly reasonable and plausible. I do however think that DB will be involved in the process at some point and, if so, the statement should have clarified when DB is intended to play a part, if only to head off conspiracy theorists assuming that DB was persona non grata. It's...
Point 3, you mean? The first sentence - PB says it in the press release. The second sentence - most of the candidates debated on here so far have been managers, not coaches.
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Interesting. Three things jump out for me:
1) given PB says that "initial" meetings will now take place, the implication is that no meetings have so far happened. Hmmm.
2) David Burke is notable by his name not being among the interviewers, at least for the "initial" interviews.
3) PB...