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Release clauses. War chests. Amortisation. Transfer requests. Surplus to requirements. Online meltdowns. Agents. Gazumping. Buy-back clauses. Options. Add-ons. Personal terms. Soft approaches. Grifters. Clickbait. Lowball bids. In The Knows. Serious bids. Super agents. Hijacked bids. Agreements in principle. Medicals. Undisclosed fees. Part exchanges. Deal sheets. Here we gos! Done deals. Some busker strumming a guitar in the Sky Sports News studio while reminiscing about Deadline Days passim through the medium of song. No really, some busker strumming a guitar in the Sky Sports News studio while etc, and so on. After a near relentless onslaught of media buzzwords, hype and assorted reputable (and thoroughly disreputable) transfer insiders announcing they “understand” things, the summer transfer window is finally shut. But what’s that Football Daily can see pressed up against the glass? The out-of-joint nose of an apoplectic David Moyes.
If you’d told me back in the golden era of Serie A in the 1990s that it would eventually become a dumping ground for underperforming (or past their best in the case of John Stones) Premier League…
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