The transfer window enters its last 11 days – as the powers that be have handily extended it to 1 September, a Friday night. What better way to start your weekend than the ghosts of Jim White, Peter Odemwingie and Harry Redknapp’s car window?
Still, the climax is in sight of what has been a crazy summer. Let’s start with crisis club Manchester United, who played like a drain at Tottenham on Saturday, their midfield a wobbling mess. The solution is the transfer market and another canny campaigner to partner Casemiro in Marco Verratti, the Paris Saint-Germain player linked with the Premier League for what feels like decades when he is only 30. Bayern Munich, one of the summer’s prime market movers also want him, though also want to ship out Leroy Sané and Ryan Gravenberch as Thomas Tuchel overhauls FC Hollywood.
