Fabregas and Tevez should get on with it

A summer without a major football tournament is always a difficult one to bear. The only major sporting event to fill your time is Wimbledon, and even the novelty of that wears off after a week.

With no matches to satisfy our football fix we have to be content with transfer rumours. The internet has meant information, gossip and rumour can be spread instantaneously across the world.

Sadly the amount of actually genuine transfer news has remained the same, while the number of gossip sites and rogue twitter feeds have has increased ten-fold. Those who bet on Premier League weekend games will be sick of things by now.

Therefore we are treated to ongoing transfer sagas that seem to produce new news reports daily, with no real progress on the actual transfer.

Cesc Fabregas and Carlos Tevez are two players seemingly forever in the news. Fabregas has long been linked with a move back to Barcelona, the player seems keen too. In fact the only thing holding back the deal is Arsene Wenger himself and Fabregas, to his credit, is not looking for force through transfer, unlike Carlos Tevez up at City.

One on hand I can understand Tevez’s desire to be closer to his young family. On the other I find it highly suspicious that he and his agent seem to seek a move every two years, with all the signing on and agents’ fees that entails. Those keeping track of the Premier League betting wouldn’t be shocked that he wants to move on.

But it is now getting to the point that for my own sanity I just want them to sort out their transfer now so we can stop reading the same stories rehashed over-and-over again.

Sadly the ridiculous transfer window has made everyone more cautious about spending too early, in the hope they can get a bargain later in the summer. It has become a gigantic and expensive game of chicken, with things set to get very messy indeed on August 31st.