At this time of the year, everyone on social media wants to be the first to break a signing story or the first to shoot down one.
Here is the transfer window on Twitter summed up in two tweets:
We're pretty robust thanks, I think we'll survive...
This tweet is not going to age well when the social media team realise he's only gone in to clear his locker ahead of a move to Southampton.
At last, a player who seems to have his head well and truly screwed on.
Is there still a government department for this kind of thing? Shop a benefits cheat or something like that I think it's called. Be very afraid Grant Gillespie, the authorities are coming for you.
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