All of the pictures (including the photo above), rumours, etc, are complete speculation and bad photoshop efforts from the likes of Auto Express and it's German equivalents.
That said... some of the upcoming changes in Irish specifications here would strongly suggest big changes are imminent. From July, they are discontinuing the regular GTI and GTI PP here. Only the Clubsport will be available. Various other "vanilla" models are being dropped from the range too. They're also throwing the kitchen sink at all variants of the Golf in terms of spec - leather will be "free" across many models, rear LED's on non GTI/R cars, Dynaudio apparently becoming standard in the GTI/R, etc...
That would suggest VW are clearing out the parts bins...