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Sorry, I think that's conspiracy theory bollocks. Villas-Boas had £160m lavished on him in just three windows, nigh on as much as Redknapp and Ramos combined. ITK last summer said that Levy had total faith in him.
As for Moutinho, we couldn't start negotiating in earnest until Real had agreed the fee for Modric, so we had just four days in which to get things sorted. That's no time at all for a deal of that magnitude. (I don't doubt that we put out feelers well in advance, but until Real stopped farting about and we had the cash guaranteed we couldn't get serious.) One piece of ITK we had at the time was that Moutinho wanted City-style money, and that Villas-Boas had to talk to him person-to-person in order to get him to accept less. There was also the third party stuff.
For me the big message from last summer's ITK was that contrary to the general view that the biggest danger to truthful ITK was from attention seeking teenagers...... It was in fact club management of semi-official ITK statements that was the most misleading .
You can easily see the advantages to a club of managing ITK...its like making offical announcements but with no comeback if it turns out to be bollocks . Last summer was packed with totally misleading ITK info about how we were going to spend big even if Bale wasn't sold and that Bale wasn't being sold...on and on...all serving the club's agenda .
I'm not blaming the club its just that we need to be fully aware of how the club manipulates our perspectives through ITK....and to get onto 57's points... A club ITK man would say that Moutinho wanted excessive terms
Maybe he did , but lets be very careful about what we believe .