Rick! Rick!
Here is your coffee. Smell the deep luscious aroma. Mmmmmmmmmmm.
Time to wake up.
Meanwhile back in the real world - you know as well as I do that things in football may well supposedly work that way, but realistically????
There have been many a player, manager, coach or whatever had their eyes turned elsewhere without official approaches made.
For example: Agent releases statement to the press and in these days of the immediacy of access of information, Boom! Person X is halfway out of the door before the first rumours are posted.
There is more than one way to skin a cat if you want to tap someone up. It's not all George Graham and brown enveloped bungs in service stations nowadays .
Derek.