Summers are for international tournaments, well-earned breaks and, of course, transfer sagas.
Ever since Cristiano Ronaldo's will-he-won't-he summer of 2009, we've become obsessed with protracted moves—perhaps to the point where some fans enjoy talking about and debating transfers even more than actually watching football.
This summer's sagas are in full swing. Neymar to Barcelona? Paul Pogba to Real Madrid? Nicolas Pepe to literally anywhere?
We know who the headliners are; we're fed their names every day, with minor advancements reported as exclusives and digested uncontrollably, like catnip to a voracious public.
What's interesting is the spotlight can be quite narrow, focusing everyone's attention on select players and in the process leaving others in the cold.