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The murky world of football finances has always been 'mudded' by strange accountancy terms that leave the layman baffled and that is exactly the intention. The most common term most people read is the ubiquitous "undisclosed' fee, when clubs reveal, or in most cases don't reveal the actual fee paid for a player.

The expression cracked record doesn't mean much to a 'soshall' media driven audience nowadays, even a 'blipping CD' has become a passé expression, so perhaps an Xbox digital glitch or server outage is more of a 'current' term. Whatever phrase you care to use, it wouldn't be far off describing West Ham United's pursuit of 'fresh legs' for what is an ageing and wafer thin squad.

Someone at Lazio headquarters will be having a few sherbets this evening, having received the news that his club have been offered Felipe Anderson virtually for free from the same club they sold him to for in excess of £34 million only a few years ago.