It intrigues me why these things typically kick-off on the very day that Mutu steps out in a Romania shirt at the Euros - and not on any of the 1,335 days since his sacking. (And yes, I did count.)

Other things that strike me as odd are that, firstly, it was Chelsea's decision to sack the player, rather than 'standing by him' - cue mental images of Paul Merson and Tony Adams; plus, if my employers were to sack me for gross negligence, I can't imagine me getting a bill for the amount they paid my recruitment consultant. Mind you, I could easily clear that invoice, since those pen-pushers at Top Jobs Inc wouldn't touch me with a barge poll. "Over-qualified they said" .. or was it 'under'?

Anyway, more than anything else, £9.6million to Chelsea would equate to me fishing out 17p from down the back of the sofa, so it seems a bizarre way to appear even more unpopular before the eyes of the general footy public by pursuing a man who has rebuilt his career following his "drugs hell".

And it must have been hell. I've heard of being stung in alleyways off Charing Cross by big geezers selling talcum powder, but £9.6million for a wrap of coke seems a little bit keen to me ..

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