You missed my point. Every year, and all year long, we're saturated with rumors of influx for top EPL clubs but hear very little ever going the other direction. Last year it seemed that there were more players on the current Man United squad than there were players in Europe that weren't already linked to a Man United move.
My only working theory is that this has to do with a sports-reading public with a huge appetite for fantasy football fiction. People sell papers and get TV ratings in the UK it seems by primarily making shit up and giving fanboys fake dreams to masturbate to for the week.
What's shocking is that these readers and fans are duped 99% of the time, so they can only keep coming back because they are willing participants. They want someone to lie to them and give them fake dreams of future glory.
I'm surprised there isn't a UK market for shows and articles about all the supermodels who rumoredly want to shag pasty fat guys from Swindon who sit around watching the telly all day. One week it's this supermodel, next week it's another.