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We definitely weren't in with a chance of buying Colwill, in the sense that there was never even a slight chance that we would spend enough money for Chelsea to consider selling him.

Having looked it up, he did score a goal against Man City around the same time to be fair. That said, I do think those two games against Ajax are doing a lot of heavy lifting considering how often the "starting to look good before he got injured again" line gets brought out.

On the other hand, maybe that's exactly why they've fallen out.

Is this actually true, or did he just happen to have a couple of decent games against a crap Ajax team just before he got injured? That's a genuine question by the way, my memory for these things is shocking.

To be fair, I'm not too fussed if De Zerbi gets into arguments with players who've not done anything while they've been here and won't be seen ever again after the end of the season anyway. Maybe we should get somebody really shit in on a loan deal just for him to vent at occasionally.

We were never going to pay Chelsea enough to sign up to the deal and we were never going to offer Colwill enough to make it worth him sitting on his backside to force the deal through. I won't comment on how much he really wanted to come versus him playing the situation to bump his Chelsea wages...

Without comparing the two situations, some people were unnecessarily excited about the possibility of us signing Colwill at the last season. It was never going to happen.

I know that. You know that. We all know that. Some of those morons might not quite have processed it yet.

I think that's the very definition of win/win. Until we absolutely tonk Barca at the Camp Nou obviously.

We're not going to have the whole "he loves it here"/"if he really cares about his football he'll stay" bollocks again are we? Surely nobody's that daft? Surely?