Having long ago eclipsed the League and FA Cups as England’s second biggest domestic football competition, the transfer window finally draws to a close tonight with many of the big-spending usual suspects still in contention early on Deadline Day. English league clubs have already spent £78,450,000 in this window, a figure that is likely to resemble chump change once the army of breathless and excitable Sky Sports News reporters deployed to stand in the perishing cold at stadia and training grounds around the country have packed up and gone home to thaw out.
If various morning papers are to be believed, Manchester United are white-hot favourites to add this January’s transfer window to the one they won last summer, with Wesley Sneijder rumoured to be just one of several decidedly expensive players rumoured to be en route to Old Trafford today. The Dutch midfielder had been rumoured to be leaving Galatasaray for Serie A leaders Juventus, but with the Old Lady of Italy having cooled her interest in the 30-year-old and decided she prefers Borussia Dortmund’s Armenian No10 Henrikh Mkhitaryan instead, Louis van Gaal hopes to secure the services of Sneijder, who has made little secret of his desire to leave Turkey. Although Galatasaray want him to stay, United will get their man if they trigger the €20m release clause in his contract that prompted Juve to take their business elsewhere.
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