Four days remain of the European transfer window. Neymar still belongs to PSG, Pogba to Manchester United and Eriksen to Spurs.
Barcelona, like the spoilt child their principal target Neymar often portrays, keep going after their man, with the mentality, ‘what we want, we must have’.
But as the deadline looms the boring inevitability of Neymar to Nou Camp nears reality.
It’s been some days since this story, while always topical, has remained at the summit of world soccer’s interest tree. Frankly fans are becoming bored of the soap opera it once threatened to become.