Berbat-Off

So after what can only be described as one of the strangest days in recent history and one that made the plot of Great Expectations appear comparatively straight forward, I can only feel that we are left with egg on our face and a huge profit.

That is not to say that this transfer window was a disaster, far from it, but if I have learned one thing from this transfer window, and I hope I finally do, it is that there are far too many people out there claiming to have 'insider knowledge' or that they are a friend of Levy's Aunts dog and have therefore been giving our entire list of summer transfer targets. Previously I have found myself hooked on this type of gossip and banter, that was until about 12.01am this morning when the harsh realisation dawned on me that we were not 'about to sign Veloso, Arshavin, Villa, Eto'o, or Diarra', as the so-called insiders had hinted and that in fact we were only spared from being graced by the presence of such world class strikers as Emile Heskey and Carlton Cole from being reported over this mornings cornflakes at the last minute! Now I am not saying that all of the information that is given by these people is false or made-up but there are obviously a lot of people looking to guess at the clubs transfer targets in the hope of getting one name right and therefore being worshipped by all that read the information.

Regarding Berbatov, yes I am pleased that we received over £30 million for a player who has disgraced himself with his behaviour at our club but why oh why do we, after knowing the situation for months, seemingly leave everything until the last minute and therefore end up with a young, unproven striker in Fraizer Campbell. Yes I, as much as the next person, will support the boy when he pulls on the lillywhite but for me replacing Berbatov with Campbell, especially knowing we would receive £20m + from the Berbatov deal, is just not good enough. We now have only Darren Bent and Fraizer Campbell available for European games as we are led to believe that Pav is cup tied. That from a team which last season boasted Defoe, Bent, Keane and Berbatov. Agreed, three of those four did not want to play for us but for goodness sake we had 3 months to arrange a replacement but as always we left things until hour x and found our self bidding for Heskey. I would rather have taken £10m for Berbs a few months ago and signed a suitable replacement than what we have ended up with. He only cost us £10m in the first place!

The signings of Corluka and Pav are very positive ones but alone are not enough for a team who recently claimed that they were expecting to break into the top 4.

Only three months to go until it starts all over again but remember.....don't believe everything you read!!!

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