braineclipse
Steve Sedgley
Almost all transfers these days are covered by media before they're announced.It depemds on how long you're talking about the media talking about a move, because every transfer we've made in the last few years has been covered by the press before the official announcement or even the medicals have taken place. So I dunno, if you're saying months and months of pre speculation then sure but almost all moves are discussed in the press before they are actually officially done.
Quite a few have seemingly been quite far along, close to done even before any real info have appeared in media.
Not necessarily months and months, but there's a difference there compared to earlier imo. Less solid information before the deal is quite far along. Before there were more leaks imo.