Gab Marcotti

Bro, if you're going to do this, you come out, you issue a statement and you say, you don't do it through weirdo back channels, Ebola, this and that, right?

Come out and say, this is why I'm not playing.

I'm not happy.

It's number one.

Number two, maybe do it earlier when you could still have some sort of effect, not when the transfer window is closed.

Number three, realize in your castle of dreams that, A, not only are you one point behind at the top of the table, so you can still have a chance to win.

There's something fundamentally bizarre.

You don't want to talk about what's bizarre and unfair.

It's not just the PIF situation.

It's the fact that so much money is being spent and thrown into a furnace, largely to you, or not largely to you, but a lot of it going to you.

I'd just be grateful.

You're in a different country.

They have a different way of doing things.

Just deal with it.

Okay.

So, it was funny.

So, there's a tradition here in England where we live, where people watch Sky Sports News on transfer deadline day.

And in past years, it's been very exciting.

Today was not exciting.

Today, it was all about every 20 minutes, like, ooh, will Jean-Philippe Mateta pass his medical?