As it’s the day after the closure of the transfer window, the Mill feels a little like a scribe who has been asked to write a preview of Gitanos FC’s next fixture. Off licking their wounds somewhere, no doubt, but someone’s going to feel the backlash one of these days, you wait and see. Now there are suggestions that if Barcelona fail in a last bid for Coutinho, they’ll resort to Mesut Özil. Olivier Giroud would be an Everton player now if it were not for his partner, according to, um, Charlie Adam. The Stoke midfielder told TalkSport that “I heard his partner refused the deal.

Source: The Guardian September 01, 2017 07:30 UTC