Chelsea youngster Armando Broja has been impressing down on the South Coast for much of the season — though he’s now gone seven league games without a goal — and in turn, Southampton have been quite clear in their desires to keep him beyond just this season, at least on loan again but preferably for good.

Unfortunately for them, that’s literally an impossibility at the moment thanks to the restrictions placed on Chelsea by the UK government, which prevent us from conducting any sort of transfer (or contract) talks, incoming, outgoing, any-which-way-heading. While this is a bit of a problem for us overall, it’s actually a nice little benefit in this situation, much to Saints manager Ralph Hasenhüttl’s chagrin.