Thanks for the patronizing tone. Maybe I started it so ok.
What I meant that you're pointing out it's weird in a suspicious way, and it's an agreeable fact. But my point was that this is an author who is known to dislike City, to the point where he's making mountains out of molehills. Such as City working with Girona. The reason it seems odd is because he's written the article in a way for the whole thing to seem odd. It's a narrative. That you it seems like many other people (particularly non-City fans) have bought into. It's his agenda.