It all started going wrong when that “Cardiff bringing out the big guns” story broke about Dalman flying over from France to head negotiations.

Before anyone starts, I’m not being serious, I don’t see how the club can be blamed for him not coming here and for Bale to come here on the sort of wages we’d have paid him would have been a second Bellamy type gesture in a dozen years (we may just see another one this summer) when most clubs fans don’t see one of those in a lifetime.