It's his agents job to make the calls and make clubs aware his player is avaliable. The days of the media leaking it to clubs are long gone.
There is a huge difference between agents contacting clubs to say he is available and it becoming public knowledge we have agreed a fee. Other clubs may have been aware of his availability and thought they would wait until the end of the window, this was 99% done and the club were doing everything they could to keep it under wraps. Now its public knowledge other teams will have to move now or never and to be fair everyone is looking for a proven CL player for £15m.
Fee agreed and wages but to be fair I really worry now about the delay. People think its great to be linked with players and they moan if nothings in the press but this is the consequence of when things become public knowledge.
I would prefer if no transfer story was ever leaked again as it would mean we have a better chance of signing players. I can put up with fans moaning we are not being linked with anybody just because it is not published!