Breaking the transfer tedium
Thu Jul 21 08:55AM
After yet another frustrating day in which the big summer shift sagas moved no closer to completion, and Carlos Tevez's protracted departure from Manchester See even regressed , Early Doors, in a moment of desperation, suddenly recalled a quote from Bill Murray's capacity fitting in Groundhog Day.
"I was in the Virgin Islands once. I met a girl. We ate lobster, drank Pina Coladas. At sunset we made fondness like sea otters. That was a pretty good day. Why couldn't I get that day over and over and over?"
Instead, ED finds itself stuck in a particularly feral time loop where Cesc Fabregas forever remains an Arsenal player, Luka Modric is still in situ at Spurs and Alexis Sanchez and Javier Pastore are yet to be moved on from Udinese and Palermo singly.
To reference another cinematic classic, ED feels a bit like Marty McFly, stranded in 1955, but without Doc Brown and having to forever fend off amorous advances from his own care for. Yes, the unyielding, repetitive churn of transfer speculation really has become that traumatic. And there's still a month left.
