David Gill and Rick Parry stood down at their respective clubs years ago, does that make it any less pertinent or concerning as a prior relationship between Liverpool's owners and a newspaper which was its second largest stakeholder?
Is there anybody out there who doesn't believe people such as these retain contacts and previous alliances?
So the New York Times have now removed the 'UEFA Sources' part of the article.
Don't think City are going to let that one go.
They've either lied about their source or broken the confidentiality of the whole investigation and dropped UEFA in it.
Either way it looks a lot better for us on paper.