Football Transfer Deadline Day: Speculate Like Crazy

Footbal Transfer Deadline Day: Speculate Like Crazy

It's football transfer deadline day.

Cue breathless Sky Sports journalists shivering outside training grounds across the country desperately hoping to spot Messi in the local chippy.

The window shuts at 11pm, giving broadcasters, the press, and now people on Twitter, the chance to speculate wildly and often inaccurately, about the movements of football stars across Europe.

For every likely story, Manchester City loaning Wayne Bridge to Sunderland, there is one less likely transfer.

American football site Fox Soccer were quick to confirm this afternoon that Chris Sutton had made the move from Norwich City to Blackburn for £5m.

The Tweet was quickly deleted after they realised they had fallen for a sting launched by the the Guardian.

Sutton, now 38, became the most expensive player in English football in 1994, when he moved from Norwich City to Blackburn Rovers for £5m.

Some of our favourite other transfer rumours on Twitter are below: