Saturday evening's Champions League final demonstrated to the world what many of us already knew: Jose Mourinho is the finest manager in Europe, bar none. His Inter Milan side made a Bayern Munich team look like a bunch of second-raters at times, despite the fact that Die Bayern…

So it’s January and the mayhem has already begun. Patrick Vieira appears set to complete a sensational return to England as City attempt to buy every player in Europe, and it seems a matter of time before Portsmouth offload half of their first team squad and Birmingham City invest…