However, as the media prepared their editions for Sunday morning, one piece of transfer tittle-tattle has caught my eye.
According to The Sun, Luton Town are interested in signing Josef Martinez.
Martinez, 30-years-of-age, is a forward who can play anywhere along the front line and is currently on the books of the MLS club, Inter Miami.
But this piece of transfer speculation contains the startling suggestion that in order to land the Venezuelan striker, the club are ready to smash their transfer record.
Now, the manner in which the Hatters do deals invariably results, when it comes to the money paid, being declared as undisclosed, but it is believed our current transfer record is circa the £4 million supposedly paid for the Birmingham City player Tahith Chong.
If our source is correct, that figure could, if Luton’s interest is genuine, be blown away with Inter Miami wanting £10 million for a player they only recently signed, in January.
Now that, for us, colossal figure, suggests to me it is a deal that isn’t going to happen, unless the Hatters hierarchy can negotiate a figure that complies with our strict and well policed budgetary control.
Our source also points out that Martinez could be reluctant to leave Inter Miami with the inference he’d love to play alongside the recently recruited Lionel Messi.
Although intrigued by this rumour, on our scale of 1 to 10, where 10 is a certainty, I’d give this a 2, I can’t, for the life of me, see the Hatters paying extortionate fees for players who have no experience of English football let alone the highly demanding and competitive Premier League.
But what are your views on this particular piece of speculation?
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