DEADLINE DAY

Manchester City – step away from the window. It’s shut.

Garry Cook – retract the credit card

That’s all folks – the transfer headlines you’ll be reading in tomorrow’s papers will be that hardly anyone went hardly anywhere.

Anyone seeking one last fix of transfer activity should check out goings on in France and Spain, who in typical continental fashion keep their windows open [...]

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Transfer Window

Wenger targets the “New Emmanuel Adebayor”

Like this man, only newer, apparently

Adebayor 

Not that there’s a great deal wrong with the old Adebayor, but it’s always good to get a new one. One that’s a bit fresher, a bit less jaded, not quite so prone to hurtling from one end of the pitch to the [...]

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Punishment

FIFA ban Chelsea from transfer activity until January 2011

Blues found guilty of inducing breach of contract

Gael Kakuta

Chelsea won’t be able to register any new players in the next two transfer windows as UEFA have found them guilty of inducing French teenager Gael Kakuta to breach his contract with Lens.

The 18-year-old winger joined [...]

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Daily Democracy

Vote: Should the transfer window be scrapped?

Current system comes under criticism from Prem gaffers

Transfer window

At 11.55pm on Monday night, Harry Redknapp should be tucked up in bed dreaming of money in his opulent Dorset mansion. Instead, he will undoubtedly be manning the phones, and furiously making sure a last-minute transfer deadline deal [...]

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