Deadline day drama..

Transfer deadline day - love it or hate it, it's always entertaining. In a car-crash kind of way. And yesterday was no exception..

So, what happened?

Well, we had the small matter of Robinho signing for Man City, for the pricely sum of £32.5 million pounds. A move that would never have happened in a million years IF:

1) Man City hadnt been taken over by a very rich middle east company, and therefore having money to burn.

2) The player had been allowed to move to Chelsea in the first place, but what do we know? Who wouldnt prefer Manchester to London?

The answer you'd be looking for is, "any remotely sane person." Then again, money talks, doesnt it? I await Robinho professing Man City as his 'dream move' some time soon. Yeah, the £6million a year had nothing to do with it, eh?

But there we go, that's the way of football these days. We've got another billionaire to contend with, which just makes the divide bigger between the Premiership and the rest of us. And do these new owners REALLY care about Manchester City? I think not.

In other transfer news, Dimitar Berbatov moved to Manchester United from Spurs in a true shocker of a move that literally no-one saw coming, and he was replaced by Frazier Campbell going the other way on loan for the season, and Russian striker Roman Pavlyuchenko. As good as it would have been for Spurs to call United's bluff here, they really had little choice but to sell the sulky Bulgarian, rather than keep him in the reserves.

Busy times on Merseyside, too. Albert Riera moved to Liverpool to complete the final piece of a jigsaw that has been going since 1992 (it's their year now, dont you know!), and over the Mersey, Everton completed the signings of Standard Liege midfielder Marouane Fellaini for a club record fee of £15m, and Louis Saha from Manchester United for £2m. As if signing Carlo Nash wasnt enough? Greedy bastards.

And Stoke also kept themselves busy, with a triple swoop for Danny Higginbottom, Tom Soares, and Michael Tonge as they planned for next season's promotion push from the Championship.

Enough on the Premiership, what about the lower leagues? Well, the biggest signing of the day (in more way's than one) had to be Lloyd Owusu, moving from Yeovil to Cheltenham.

"He's got great experience, strength and presence and can lead the forward line. He is different to what we have already in terms of his height and strength and will give us that extra firepower."

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I don't think words are needed, really.

But seriously, with the emergency loan window opening in again in a week or so, activity in the lower leagues should pick up. Not that Torquay will be signing anyone, oh no. Our squad is good enough apparantly, what with our lofty position in 18th at the moment..