Will Manchester United ever sign Wesley Sneijder? Or Nicolas Gaitan? Produce a word cloud for the club's last eight transfer windows and those two would be in a font so big, you could see it from the Moon.
Will Arsenal nail down William Carvalho or even his long obsolete prototype, the lesser-spotted Yann M'Villa? Could this the year that Liverpool finally sign a wincing Edison Cavani?
Every summer transfer window seems to see the same football clubs linked with the same players, or at least the same type of players. Sometimes the deals actually come close to completion, sometimes they never get out of the starting gate.