For as long as I can remember, the summer transfer window has been known as ‘silly season'. This is because things can often get silly. Spurious rumours and gossip abound. It used to be the case that estate agents were key to many of these. X player has been spotted looking at properties in an affluent part of North London, therefore he's joining Arsenal. Or, conversely, one of our star players has put his Highgate mansion up for sale and that means he's going. Then we had social media come along which fuelled the ITKs because they fed off the desperation of people to see signings made. We've had stories of someone's sister on LinkedIn saying something, and just a week after the...
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