Really it's simply a question of which crap organisation put it out there first. That DT "3" story also appeared on FLW and the Athletic and the72 and other "news outlets" in slightly different wording. FLW have now made it 4, one of which is Shinnie who has already gone to Aberdeen.

One dreams up summat and the rest reword it. I'm waiting for the first one of them to claim we might be interested in a certain player with links to the city. Possibly something as tenuous as he once ate a slice of Sage Derby cheese...