Despite his declarations to the contrary, Kia Joorabchian has been offering striker Carlos Tevez to Manchester City.
Tevez is still yet to sign a permanent deal with Manchester United and his loan deal with them expires in the summer.
A senior source at City told Undercover Sport: "Kia has been telling us we can have Tevez if we want him. It hasn't been raised at an official level, but it's something that has been raised at the dinner table."
That's the truth, even though Joorabchian has been telling the newspapers, such as his personal newsletter... I mean favoured publication, the Daily Mail, to the contrart.
Joorabchian is very close to Mail sports editor Lee Clayton, which is why you will always see favourable coverage of the businessman and his clients in the paper.
It's why they write glowing pieces about Thaksin Shinawatra, a man described by Human Rights Watch as "a human rights abuser of the worst kind", yet someone who has had a close working relationship with Joorabchian.
It's why they have the inside track on "the Carlos Tevez affair" and have access to damaging information about West Ham chief executive Scott Duxbury, with whom Joorabchian has personal animosity.
Joorabchian wields increasing power in the Premier League, yet he stamps on anything other than favourable coverage.
On Tuesday evening, his lawyers issued a letter to all major media outlets warning that they could be sued if they made defamatory comments about him in their coverage of the Carlos Tevez story.
The letter insisted that Joorabchian did not own in whole or in part Tevez or his compatriot Javier Mascherano.
Blogs that have been critical of Joorabchian, questionning the source of his wealth and claiming links to Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky, have now been removed from the internet, under threat of legal action.
Here is someone who wields power, yet does not seem accountable.
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