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Undisclosed

John J O’Connor

Wednesday, August 30th, 2023

1 Leave a comment on verse 1 0 We’re selling young Bob to Chelsea
A deal has been proposed
But when the media ask, how much he cost
We’ll say it’s Undisclosed.

2 Leave a comment on verse 2 0 We won’t mention the carried injury
Our team doctor diagnosed
And if the taxman asks-how we got paid
We’ll say it’s Undisclosed.

3 Leave a comment on verse 3 0 When the fans inquire how much we got
We’ll just say that no one knows
And if they keep on asking for the price
We’ll say it’s Undisclosed.

4 Leave a comment on verse 4 0 At least young Bob’s not bothered
He’s calm and well composed
But when he asks how much we think he’s worth
We’ll say it’s Undisclosed.

5 Leave a comment on verse 5 0 We’ll bring him up to Stamford Bridge
Where for pictures he’ll be posed
And when Sky TV – beg to know the fee
We’ll say it’s Undisclosed.

6 Leave a comment on verse 6 0 He’ll sign an eight year contract
With FFP loopholes well imposed
And when Bob asks is he coming back on loan
We’ll say it’s Undisclosed.

Notes

Like crowd attendances, transfer fees have become boring. I don’t want to hear about add ons – or read that if he plays a thousand games for his new team we receive an extra billion in crypto coins. I yearn for the bargain 5,000 quid buy you got from Scotland. Where that five grand saved a team from becoming extinct. Or, interesting fees like 99,999. The first million pound teenager, or the wonderment that a player like Steve Daley could possibly command a fee of 1,500,000 pounds.
Nowadays it’s all monopoly money. Average players are going for 50 million plus. Sky television make a big hullabaloo about deadline day. A taxi driver will call in a talk show and swear he took a bloke who looks like Messi to the Tesco’s near Stoke’s ground. Sky will pick up on it and cameras will descend on the Potteries.
Transfer deadline day usually ends up anti-climatic. Even when you do have a little curiosity about how much a player has cost, there is a good chance that next to, ‘Fee’ will be written – Undisclosed. Why? Surely us nosey parkers deserve the right to know how much our club paid or received for one of our players. Enquiring minds need to know.

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Source: http://footballpoets.org/poems/undisclosed/