It looks like a couple of lads from the SMB set up the twitter storm and a local paper in Portugal picked it up, with out check the facts. Just shows that football reporters the world over are lazy! However the concern must be that reporters are willing to believe these scams, which must mean that they think he will leave. By the way I would have him at our place, the cut price fee would pay back the airfares and hotels we have paid for only for you to sign the player!
One of our old not606ers did a twitter scam a couple of years ago making out we were signing a player called Thomas Heksami. A few sources actually picked up on that one also...