Bridge in troubled waters as Scolari’s tactics failing to inspire confidence

WELL, the silly season is up and running . . . and I am not just talking about the results.

While Manchester City are being linked with the likes of Kaka for €65m, and Buffon at a million quid a week the papers are claiming we are after Emile Heskey, Kevin Davies and Kenwyne Jones — oh and that we will sell Joe Cole to Tottenham for €4.5m.

Why don’t they go the whole hog and claim that we are up for a swap deal with Hull — Windass for Lampard — and that we also have our people looking into whether we could tempt Bramble to our ranks so we can get rid of Terry?