By now we all know about D.C. United signing Wayne Rooney and his introduction to the city and his new teammates. Like most significant events in the class of an internationally recognized signing, things tend to appear to get caught up in its wake. Your team’s name is on the minds of folks who previously weren’t thinking of you, in ways good and bad.
That brings us to transfer rumors. When a player from a given country gets signed, there is a tendency to latch other names onto the signing team, perhaps to stir up some business, or maybe even simply to keep a player’s name in the press.