Of the many problems with transfer speculation in February, perhaps none is more notable than the fact that it’s occurring in February. The winter window ahs just slammed shut, and it’s the time of year when the nights are long and filled with terrors – at least for football writers. Between the relative tedium that is pre-match write-ups and post-match analysis of the matches that’re flying fast and furious, there is little to write about that galvanizes the minds of arms chair Directors of Football and Football Manager aficionados. And so we latch onto whatever bits of transfer gossip we can, from whatever rag it is that decides to print it. We’ve all been guilty of it from time to time, myself included.