So farewell to the 2022 Summer transfer window. Farewell to the orgy of financial excess that will have rubberneckers from outside football's ecosystem speechless as the wider country continues to be crippled by the cost of living crisis.
Farewell to the three months and £2billion spend that pretty much renders football incapable of pleading poverty again - as it did two years ago - any time soon. Farewell to the summer within which Chelsea, Tottenham, Arsenal and Manchester United all allowed their club-record signings — totalling £313.5million - to leave without clawing back a penny in transfer fees.
Farewell to the window that saw a clutch of top clubs lose all perspective over the talents of 21-year-old Anthony Gordon at Everton, valuing the winger who scored four goals last season - and who is entering only his second full Premier League campaign - at £50-60million.
