No one is making any transfers today. Or even thinking about them. I might as well just come out with it, straight away. This is apparently because all major managers are too busy blathering on about Emmanuel Adebayor to think about signing anyone. With Harry Redknapp having already backed the Manchester City striker – "If we had been giving him grief all game and he did that, I would probably say 'Fair play'" – yesterday Sir Alex Ferguson declared that City had become "a bit, how can I put it, cocky". And he should know.

The latest opinions about Adebayor, in brief:

• Emmanuel Adebayor: "If you were to abuse a man in the street for an hour he would react – and it would be worse than a goal celebration!"

• Cesc Fábregas: "I have no idea why he did this. It is a bit strange."

• Emmanuel Adebayor: "There were players from Arsenal who refused to shake my hand before the match! There was more than one of them. For them to act like that was a disgrace. My friends, like Eboué, were fine with me. They are decent people."

• Emmanuel Eboué: "I am happy the FA gave him a three-game ban, very, very happy. What he did was no good for football."

• Emmanuel Adebayor: "As the tattoo on my arm says, 'Only God can judge me' – not Arsène Wenger."

So, in even more brief: raking your studs down someone's face and inspiring a riot – good; not shaking a man's hand – a disgrace. And Adebayor's friends don't like him very much.

But while we can no longer rely on our football folk for rumour-creation, they can be confidently backed on the fighting front. We've still not got over Adebayorgate and it already has a rival, as the Sun reveals that the Aston Villa manager Martin O'Neill and Aston Villa footballer Nigel Reo-Coker have "grappled each other to the ground in an amazing training-ground bust-up".

"At one point they fell to the ground grappling with each other," reports "one stunned onlooker", "although no one was throwing punches or anything like that". The whole business left O'Neill so furious that he allowed his young centre-back Shane Lowry to join Portsmouth on loan.

Meanwhile Chelsea, who shouldn't be allowed to sign anyone because a) the transfer window's closed, and b) even if it was open they've been banned from using it, have signed the 17-year-old Croatian goalkeeper Matej Delac. Their cunning rule-dodging ruse is that they'll pay his wages for two whole years before he actually joins the club in 2011.

In Italy, at least, there are still a few rumours on the loose. According to one of them, the Arsenal target Marouane Chamakh is being chased by Juventus, who need to replace David Trezeguet with another not quite as good as he really ought to be French striker. "The idea of playing in Turin fascinates me," the Bordeaux frontman said.

And, what's more, Lazio's Uruguayan goalkeeper Fernando Muslera is the subject of a three-way Premier League tug-of-war between Arsenal and Manchesters City and United. You may think that two half-arsed rumours do not a Mill make but, as the tattoo on Emmanuel Adebayor's arm says, "Only God can judge me".