Several damning stories have been leaked from Manchester United in recent weeks - and club legend Gary Neville believes they're coming from the home dressing room.
"What they do not realise is that unfortunately, when they go to the media then those media people go to us - so we know who is briefing," said Neville.
"The reality is that we do not like it, but we know who it is. We are not going to throw people under a bus here because we have that journalistic respect."
One of the rumours claimed the players are unhappy with manager Ralf Rangnick's coaching methods and have mockingly labelled his assistant Chris Armas as "Ted Lasso".
Although Rangnick is only in charge on an interim basis, he will start a two-year consultancy job in the summer and will be tasked with mapping United's future.
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The Red Devils haven't won the Premier League or Champions League since Sir Alex Ferguson retired in May 2013 and are approaching five years without a trophy.
Rangnick could learn something by reading "Sir Alex Ferguson: Managing Manchester United" - an academic paper published by Harvard Business School in September 2012.
In the document, Ferguson revealed his secret to stopping dressing-room leaks was building trust between him, his coaching staff and the players.
"There is no room for criticism on the training field," noted the iconic Scottish manager. "For a player – and for any human being – there is nothing better than hearing 'well done'.
"Those are the two best words ever invented in sports. You don't need to use superlatives."
Ferguson went on to say: "You can't always come in shouting and screaming. That doesn't work. No one likes to get criticised.
"But in the football dressing room, it's necessary that you point out your players' mistakes. I do it right after the game. I don't wait until Monday, I do it, and it's finished.
"I'm on to the next match. There is no point in criticising a player forever. You can't ever lose control – not when you are dealing with 30 top professionals who are all millionaires."
Central to Ferguson's thesis was his no-nonsense mentality. If a player cannot adhere to the rules set - such as leaking information to the press - their Old Trafford career is over.
"If they misbehave, we fine them, but we keep it indoors," he added. "And if anyone steps out of my control, that's them dead."
Ferguson appreciated the importance of the press throughout his managerial career and never wanted reporters to get the upper hand.
Writing about press conferences in his 2013 autobiography, he insisted: "Appearing beleaguered is no way to handle the press.
"Showing your torments to them is no way to help the team or improve your chances of winning... it was my duty to protect the dignity of the club and all that we were doing.
"It was important to be on the front foot and control the conversation as much as possible."
As such, leaks were very rare during Ferguson's long reign at United.
Writing in his Daily Mail column in August 2011, Neville revealed how the manager responded to Roy Keane's infamous MUTV interview in 2005.
The United captain criticised several team-mates and the interview was subsequently pulled - but not before Keane's comments were leaked to the press.
"Roy was wound up because he felt the younger players were falling short," noted Neville. "He’d see them on their PlayStations and he couldn’t get his head around it.
"The programme was pulled by the club. The story leaked out and the press were all over it.
"The manager prides himself on keeping troubles behind closed doors. He called everyone to his office to clear the air. The place was crammed."
Shortly after that incident, Keane - an icon at Old Trafford - was gone. Ferguson made exceptions for few, if anyone.
Ferguson's no-nonsense approach can be recognised in Neville's and Rio Ferdinand's reactions to the recent rumours that have been leaked to the press.
"Down the years, stuff happens and your family are asking questions but you just drift by it," said Ferdinand.
"Sometimes a team [line-up] would come out [in the media] and you’d realise a player has told their agent who has told the media to keep them sweet.
"The manager [Sir Alex Ferguson] used to go nuts and say, 'How's this come out? If I find out who this was, watch.'"
Neville's story is perhaps even more telling. "That [leaks] never happened in my time but we had the greatest level of stability," said the retired right-back.
"I remember when I joined Sky and we had the Champions League in the early years, and I went over to Napoli to do a game involving Chelsea.
"It was when Andre Villas-Boas was their manager and he left out Frank Lampard, Michael Essien, Ashley Cole – four or five prominent players.
"That is what managers tend to do in their final days at a club, as they see it as a free hit.
"I remember sitting there at lunchtime with our team and they were getting messages of team news being leaked and the manager being slagged off.
"And I sat there thinking, 'Does this actually happen?' That is happening at Manchester United now."
Dressing-room leaks give fans fascinating insight into struggling dressing rooms - such as United's right now - yet they rarely help the cause.
Rangnick has been tasked with revitalising a fallen giant - making the Red Devils competitive again - as they approach a decade in the shadows.
It's imperative the German stops information spilling out of the club sooner rather than later. Taking a leaf out of Ferguson's book may just be his best option.
