You Can’t Always Get What You Want
“But if you try sometimes, you might find
You get what you need…”
Hours after dragging ourselves from the wreckage of SSN’s relentless deadline day howitzer on the senses, all that’s left to ask is: what exactly have we ended up with? Well, for the most part, no-one’s entirely sure. Still we wait for confirmation on Van der Vaart’s arrival. A deal which has come so far out of left-field, ITK’s all over internetland are being forced to back-edit three months of archives with digital Tipex. Did I say Parker? You must have misheard me…
From where I’m sitting, eight million sounds like deal of the bloomin’ decade. Particularly when you throw in ‘Arry’s claim that Munich were willing to pay ten score above that only last week. An assertion I’d believe were it for the fact that I didn’t believe it. This whole window’s made me awfully cynical.
In the cold light of day, though, despite stark absence of a glittery new frontman, ( but then who did get everything they asked for?) I reckon our dealings have been pretty solid. It may feel like we’ve been dormant for the majority of the summer; days have tumbled on with plenty of fireworks and circuses in the media without much of the happening actually happening. But when you look at the squad- even without VDV- it has some real depth to it. Quality, too. There’s quality. No fooling, mister.
My advice, then. Take stock, be thankful that we’re still in one piece and press on. There’s a long season ahead. Failing that, if you’ve got the stomach for it, there’s always January.
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