With the emphasis on MAY

If you heard a strange noise that was a bit like a cotton wool ball smashing into a microphone this morning, chances are that you were in Chelsea or Manchester. Don’t waste the rest of the day trying to figure out what it was, it was just the sound of around fifty ears suddenly pricking up in unison, with news that David Villa hasn’t completely counted out a career move to the Premier League.

Such news will obviously spark an almighty game of show-me-the-money between Chelsea, and Mans United and City, with the player likely to cost around £35 million upwards. The whisper coming from all of the most luxurious football saunas - or more specifically, from The Daily Mail - is that John Terry desperately wants him at Chelsea.

But before you get too hysterical, here’s what the Valencia man actually said:

“Honestly? There can be a thousand scenarios, I’m not saying that I am opening the doors to anywhere, but I’m not closing them. Neither Europe nor Africa, nor to America, nor Korea*. I don’t shut the door to anywhere because I have a short career and I want to enjoy it.”

* A Spoiler hunch suggests that the Korea door might actually be shut.