Liverpool's Director of Communications Jen Chang has been accused of threatening the man behind the Twitter parody account Duncan Jenkins. The account is a caricature of a football journalist and blogger.
Earlier today, the twitter user who operates the account wrote about the entire alleged ordeal on his blog.
He raised the ire of Chang when he tweeted correctly about a player that Liverpool were going to sign. Chang believed that he had a mole somewhere within the Liverpool organisation who was feeding him information about Liverpool's transfer targets and claimed that his tweets had cost the club large sums of money. The writer of the blog told Chang that he did not have a mole within Liverpool and the tweets had been a series of calculated guesses based on information tweeted by various journalists.
Later that very day, Chang claimed, Duncan Jenkins tweeted about Borini to LFC being a genuine possibility. Chang claimed Roma were furious about it, and that they then upped the transfer fee by around £0.3m (£300,000).
In a meeting between the two, he claims that Chang told him he had build up a dossier about him and his family and that unless he tweeted that he did not have someone feeding him information from within the club then action would be taken against him.
He said I would be banned from Anfield for life. I told him the season ticket - which I share - was not in my name. He said it didn't matter, and that both I and the lad who owns the season ticket would be reimbursed and then given lifetime bans from Anfield. He then started to talk about what a disaster this would be for me - how not only would I lose the season ticket and be banned for life, but I would upset a friend who would be banned for life through no fault of his own.
If he did not tweet to discredit himself as a legitimate source for information regarding Liverpool's transfer targets the writers alleges that Chang also threatened to turn all the information in the dossier over the journalists who would run a smear campaign against him.
"they will make your life hell, and will turn all Liverpool supporters against you. The papers will say you cost the club you claim to love serious money, that you wilfully damaged the club".
"You know how crazy football fans are", he said, "You'll have dog shit coming through your letterbox, you'll have to take your Facebook page down, you might even have to move house".
The writer says that he placated Chang and told him that he would do as requested. He did not however and once the deadline has passed Chang began calling and emailing continuously but all attempts at communication were disregarded. A week later he claims to have received a phone call from a third party calling on behalf of Chang saying that all threats of action had been withdrawn.
At about 7pm, I received a call from a third party on Chang's behalf - someone I had until that point counted on. The caller told me he'd spoken to Chang, that all threats were now withdrawn, and would I agree to sweep it under the carpet and forget about it.
The writers also says that Chang was working without the knowledge of anyone else within Liverpool.
During the meeting Chang told me no-one at the club knew he was having this meeting. He came out with a phenomenal amount of bullshit during the meeting, but I suspected this bit to be true. I don't think this was a Liverpool FC thing - I believe it was Chang flying solo. For some reason he had become unbelievably paranoid about Duncan Jenkins and his behaviour was borderline demented.
For a club that has had such a poor time in regards to public relations recently this must come as another blow.
It is also surely one of the craziest football stories that we will read this year.
