The football season is just days away now. The new one. New broom. All bets off. League table in alphabetical order. All to play for. Brighton have the same chance as Manchester City. Hmmm…

Other than the 500 million quid difference between the teams. Manchester City have a back four costing almost 200 million. 3 of those four arriving within about 12 months. So firstly, I want to know how the ‘financial fair play’ thing works, again? The structure that was implemented to try and ‘level the playing field’ a little bit. To stop teams funded by middle eastern black gold or tainted by Russian corruption from having an unfair advantage over ‘normal’ clubs? Oh, it is in place, and working… errr… quite well. Yup.

Neymar Junior is probably moving to Paris St Germain tomorrow, from Barcelona. To trigger the transfer PSG have to find over 200 million (pound/euros, no difference now at that level), with the final transfer fee reaching closer to 250 mil. Then they’re going to increase his salary. To over a million pounds a week. A fucking week. 55 million a year for five years. Another 250 mil +. Making Neymar ‘worth’ a half a billion pounds. Again another vanity project funded by middle east money, this time the Qataris. That famously footballing nation soon to host a world cup. If anyone is flying there by that time.

I don’t give a shit who buys who for what. Its all totally obscene and why we haven’t had some form of salary ‘cap’ or proper fair play regime in place is a mystery that totally stinks of corruption a the highest level and is poisoning the beautiful game.

Spurs total net spend this transfer window: -£68 million. We’ve bought no-one, sold a few. Notably Kyle Walker to Man City for 50 mil. Anyone else could have had him for 20, but its Man City/Chelsea, double it and add on more for good measure. They’ll pay anything.

And the only player that Spurs are apparently considering is Ross Barkley. Who, for some unaccountable reason, has a price tag of 50 mil. Although perhaps there is some accountability as that’s what we’ve just cashed in for Walker. Ross Barkley is a 50 million pound player like Donald Trump is going to make America great. He’s another David Bentley. We have the best midfield in the league (he says modestly, optimistically, hopefully) and although we need a bit more depth for our Euro campaign, we don’t need to pay 50 mil for a bench-warmer who is so full of unfulfilled promise and never lived up to any of it.

Honolulu has banned pedestrians from looking at phones while crossing the road. What a brilliant and un-zeitgeisty thing to do. People will be fined. Should be executed but its a start. Hats off to Hawaii. Though not for long, you’ll get sun-stroke.

Happy Sunday

A xxxx