Transfer balls: Manchester United fish for Everton ‘hero’ Barkley
Transfer balls: The Daily Star says “Manchester United are weighing up a £45m move for Everton’s Ross Barkley.”
Number of words to supports the claim: nil.
Aware that the story is thinner than Victoria Beckham’s smile, the Mirror creates the headline: “Manchester United line up £45m Ross Barkley deal?”
The Mirror then adds: “Manchester United have made £45m-rated Everton midfielder Ross Barkley their top summer target (Daily Star Sunday).”
And with that a story with no source of facts features in two tabloids.
And what of the story? Would Barkely go to United? Well, the Sun told us in late 2014: “ROSS BARKLEY has signed a new £13.5million Everton contract — insisting he could not ‘do a Wayne Rooney’.”
Barkley declared: “I knew what it meant when Rooney left. I knew how the fans felt. We thought Everton could have pushed on, so when he left we were all down. It’s a dream to be playing for Everton. This means everything to me.”
And it was the, er, Daily Star which told us a few months back: “Barkley, 21, is well on his way to becoming a homegrown hero.”
Everton have new owners. They never buckled and sold John Stones in the summer. So why would Barkley leave them for Manchester United?
Posted: 3rd, April 2016 | In: Back pages, manchester united, Sports Comment | TrackBack | Permalink
