^*^ The Fiver | Arsenal, Barcelona and a transfer window that was almost interesting

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Jim White’s yellow tie was nowhere to be seen. WhatsApp long ago killed the artifice of having two mobile phones on the desk. Fans hanging around a training ground to cheer a new signing in bovine fashion is just another casualty of Covid-19. Things ain’t what they used to be. But, as it SLAMMED SHUT, The Fiver had to admit that January 2022’s transfer window had actually been almost interesting. Of the big boys, Manchester City signed the new Sergio Agüero/Vicente Matías Vuoso in Julián Álvarez. Liverpool landed Luis Díaz and will probably go back in this summer for Fulham’s Fabio Carvalho, despite paperwork not being complete in time. Chelsea signed nobody. Manchester United shed Anthony Martial but Jesse Lingard was kept on.

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