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Occam's razor would likely lead to the manager saying where a player wants and doesn't want to play being more reliable than a BT Sports interview as a marquee signing, before he's even trained, though. I doubt it'd make the edit if he said "To be honest, I'm only really keen to play as a right winger as I don't like other positions".
It feels like people are stretching to scapegoat Jose, when there's not much to suggest that Bale is even that bothered about playing any more.
I'm not scapegoating Jose here, I didn't think your point was referencing him at all as you brought up 'insider information', which I take to mean ITK, as I'm presuming the other argument you refer to in your post is the back and forth you've been having regarding what Poch says in his book about Sissoko. Maybe I'm reading into things and that's not what you meant, but it suggests being rather 'flexible' with logic and sources as it suits.
Anyway, it's not a big argument but I'd also say Jose is more than intelligent enough to play the media in the way he wants, he's almost certainly cleverer than any football PR person.