The Premier League’s obscene transfer window has broken football
It’s entirely fitting that the biggest ever Premier League transfer, in the biggest ever Premier League window, summed up so much of this window - and, arguably, how a lot of normal football logic has gone.By the time Chelsea and Manchester City finally sat down for proper talks on Enzo Fernandez, after months of distant tension, there was at least one obvious baseline for everyone. The Stamford Bridge hierarchy could point to the £116m that City themselves paid Nottingham Forest for