HITC is a website that serves one purpose: to harvest clicks. It's not rocket science: you link as many clubs as you dare to a player, and then watch as the clicks come rolling in from supporters of the alleged suitors and the player's current club. A brief look at the website's other stories reveals an embarrassing number of "In The Know" type articles, none of which have any grounding in reality or fact checking. Have a look through their archives and aside from fluffy listicles, "Twitter reaction" non-stories, you'll find a load of speculative nonsense that history has shown (like their Southwell to Blackburn story) to have been completely made up.
Of course, Southwell is almost certainly on the radar of many clubs, and I would be surprised if he's still here come the end of the summer. But remember that fake news sites like HITC have no more of a clue where he's likely to end up anyone else does.
Don't give them the benefit of your click and wait for an actual journalist to confirm one way or another on an actual newspaper site.
(This is where at 3pm today, Southwell signs for Hibs.... in which case I'm giving you all fair warning I'm not afraid of deleting all this!)
