When is football going to get loss complicated? The pandemic has had a huge impact, and we all know the various issues it has caused on and off the pitch. Travel is complicated; the lack of fans means revenues have been destroyed and that in turn has massively impacted the transfer market. Not just because there's not enough money to buy the players you want, but because there's not enough money out there for people to give you cash for the players you no longer want. I mean, it got to a point this January where Arsenal basically paid players to go away. That may well be something unique to us because of the dismal job of squad management we did as a club, but we'd have had to pay them one...
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