Who should you trust?

The Three Stages of the Transfer Window Insanity!

There are alleged sightings of West Ham striker Carlton Cole at Liverpool‘s training ground (BBC Sport)

This is what makes the transfer deadline so damn amusing. The idea of having football teams and their respective supporters scrambling around looking for snippets of truth in amongst the myriad of lies is almost biblical in scale.

Just today alone I am sure that literally thousands of people have been spotted at various training grounds, local estate agents, petrol stations, all supposedly en route to their next footballing destination.

There will umpteen cabbies today telling their next fares that they were just driving Rafael Van der Vaart in that very same taxi and your mate in the pub later today will swear blind that he bumped into David Bentley walking down the high street. Now these people may not all be liars, but most will be deluded or just plain blind.

Some question the point in the transfer windows and who they actually benefit and it must be said that they do more harm than good and are a part of the game that managers and owners can do without, but boy aren’t the fun.

Oh, and just as I close, someone has texted into BBC 606 to say they just saw David Trezeguet at John Lennon Airport, classic!


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