And the So, Ed you're not very well I'm given to understand. Well yeah got a bit of a cold it

might well be Hernandez- Iitis after my bold prediction

that there is absolutely no way that heavier Hernandez would go to

al Madrid or United would let Danny Wobec go because that would be mental capital letters exclamation

exclamation unless they are planning to get another striker in did we say that did

we say that I'm not I think we might have said that but I'm not sure that any of us saw Radamael-Fau-Cau in the offing, did we?

So let's just start with that.

Why not start at the end and work backwards?

It was the night before Christmas, the night before transfer deadline day. I was on Twitter too late at night and

Tankredi Par Mary noted buffoon

Troll yeah started tweeting

Falcald to MUC looks like it really might be happening. And of course everyone roundly mocked him and I sort of just burst out laughing at the very

concept that a football person could be talking about this.

But then 24 hours later, or a little bit more than 24 hours later,

he was a Manchester United player.

What the heck happened?

Well yeah, those in the know, apparently not us,

claim that United had been looking at Falcalfa for some time

and in fact had thought about making a bid last summer and ditched it

and had thought about making a bid last summer and ditched it and had thought about making a bid

earlier in the summer and only accelerated their moves once it was known that Manchester

City and Arsenal were interested. It seems a little dodgy to me that one. I think this was another opportunistic move by United

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