It’s easy to get sniffy about transfer deadline day and its yellow-tie, purple-dildo, day-off-work oddness, people acting like there’s football going on when there isn’t. But one way or another, we’re guaranteed an assortment of grown adults making royal shows of themselves and there’s nothing more football than that, so off we go.
Chelsea have been looking a bit ropey recently – which is strange when you consider their director of football is such a natural, he knew to appoint himself despite having no experience whatsoever in the game or the job. As such, there’s absolutely no chance anyone has taken massive advantage, no club, player or agent demanding fees well over the usual, but now PSG fancy having a go, offering him Neymar. Amazingly, it seems that a club whose funding relies on a nation-state can’t simply buy Vitinha, Nuno Mendes, Fabián Ruiz, Renato Sanches, Nordi Mukiele and Hugo Ekitiké in a single summer without bothering financial fair play rules. It’s an outrage!
