Football transfers can often be about playing the man rather than the occasion.
Manchester City learned a hard lesson last summer that, whatever Harry Kane and his representatives might have thought, when Daniel Levy says no he means it.
The fact that bluffing and posturing is a part of negotiations means that you can often never be certain, but while Txiki Begiristain generally has his own red lines that he does not cross, it is generally better to be safe than sorry.
