So another transfer deadline
day is over and Talk Sport and Sky Sports presenters can stop at least until
the weekend shrieking in hysterical tones as if the transfer of Frederico Bollango from Verona to Hull city was the
greatest event n the planet since the birth of Christ.
If ever there was something
that expresses the madness of modern football at the highest level it is the
end of the Summer transfer window, dont get me wrong have no problem with the window as a concept,
at least it stops all the tapping up and tedious press speculation during the
rest of the season but there are some major problems.
1) Why does it not end
before the season starts to stop the panic buying at the end of August just
because a team has not won their first 3 or 4 matches 10-0
2) How can major teams leave
it so late to sort out vital staffing decisions that will affect their
performance and success both sportingly and financially in the year to come, in
the case of Manchester Utd, Arsenal and
Everton leaving it until the final few minutes. Surely they would have
identified their needs soon after the end of last season and planned their
feasible targets rather than going off on unachievable wild goose chases for
the likes of Fabregas and Suarez.
This particular last day has
of course highlighted the greatest obscenity of modern football that being the
chasm between the haves and the have nots, on the day that Gareth Bale moved
for gazillions Kettering Town went out of business for the amount of money Bale
will earn every 36 hours, there has to something seriously wrong with a sport
where that can happen.
And then back to where I
started and the broadcast media hyping the whole day up to a ludicrous extent
and often getting it wrong, this years gem was Stan Collymore on Talk Sport all
but staking the life of his entire family on Romalu Lokaku going back to West
Brom on loan (Don’t get me going on season long loans especially between EPL
teams) ,sadly he was not on air when the Belgian signed on the dotted line for
Everton.It must be time for radio and TV to employ qualified journalists rather
than some footballer recently retired who can just about put a sentence
together without going You Know
