I think it’s the agents who do the fooling.I City are meticulous with their signings, we buy technical players with thje right mindset, humble, hard working. Ronaldo is just about as far away from that as can be. It'd be like Pep signing Zlatan .
For that reason I think we actively played utd, fooled them into buying ronaldo, and that we were never considering having him in our dressing room, he's pure poison.
City never dispelled any rumours though. And let them run with it.