in case people forgot or weren't here jeff circled harry like a shark for years he was the center of dozens of harry going solo theories, he was making sure that when 1d was over which everyone knew was coming he would be the one harry would sign to, and harry got a deal of it

don't EVER think that the piece of freedom harry has now with his clothes and the small hints he was able to give was GIVEN to him because they were not, he spent a very long time around jeff and that was not because they are friends those were business meetings

he didn't allow harry to do shit he made compromises so he would sign a MAJOR act,the boys were fucked before because they didn't have any leverage over syco and harry had that with the azoffs don't think for a fucking SECOND that they wouldn't have fucked him over for more money

towards the end of one direction harry was being advised by him about his solo career before we even had an hiatus announcement but like this is apparently common knowledge that was lost? it was literally a joke that the azoffs had gotten harry already