Right then, here we are. It's TDD. Transfer Deadline Day. The sporting equivalent of Valentine's Day or Mother's Day. A load of shite made up by Hallmark simply to sell you tat you don't need.
And you don't need me to tell you that's exactly what Sky Sports have done with football. As clubs feel the pressure to buy tat they don't need (or tat they do!), their intrepid reporters like Johnny Sixphones and Jim 'Redknapp Rimmer' White, feed us non-stop information about who might on their way here, or who they understand is going there and for whom there's talk of a medical somewhere else.
Most years Arsenal fans are on the periphery of TDD. We go into it with hope and not much expectation. Arsene has already said he's done his business but, tantalisingly, says that if a bargain crops up then it's not impossible. As the window draws to a close that flicker of optimism is snuffed out, other clubs go about the place like market traders, a-haggling here, a-bartering there, and we end up with nothing. But today should be different.
We know of three deals done or very close to being done, more on those soon, but Arsene still has a big chunk of change burning a hole in his Farrah slacks pockets and we still need a player or two. So it could be an interesting one. There's hope, but there's also expectation. Who might we be after? How much will we spend on them? Will we break our transfer record? Who might we sell? What does Sixphones have for lunch? All these questions and more will be answered before the day is out. In the meantime though, we've done some business although not all of it has been made official.
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