muirinho To return to Scott Hogan, looks like usual S*n rubbish (bit surprised though as Alan Nixon is usually more or less reliable).
Jaap Stam, quoted in getreading.
But when asked about potential swoop for the 24-year-old striker Stam said: "The club is nowhere with that to be fair.
"Scott is a player who, I think, has been on the list with every Premier League team and maybe the top teams in the Championship as well, because he is doing well.
"It has been in the paper that there has been a big offer for him, for something like £9 million. But I can tell you it's not true.
"Maybe that's a sell thing from agents and they're putting that in the paper to put up the price, but it's not true.
"We don't have that money to pay for players and we don't have the salary to go with that transfer fee as well."
He added: "There is a lot going on in the papers at the moment about money being offered for players, I can tell you that is absolutely rubbish. It hasn't been happening."
http://www.getreading.co.uk/sport/footb ... m-12360793
So either there was a bid, which was way way less than that, or there was no bid at all.
Or he doesn't want to advertise an abundance of resources as to not further inflate the price of this and future transfer dealings.
Any could be true.
