Sheppard should have nowt to do with it...
Weve seen it in the past with Robson (Speed vs Butt, Kluivert vs Beattie) and lets say we did get a world class manager, who says he wants to sign Chivu from Roma, but our mate Fred says "nor lad, i kna this gud en - plays for Gatesheed, and he's a geordie like"...they have a big argument, etc etc