Today's flummery feels a chill wind

The Mill is of course no stranger to extreme wealth and the lives of the very, very [pause while the Mill affects a yawn, adjusts over-sized sunglass-style glasses, and takes a moment to root around in King's Cross platform-side waste receptacle for abandoned Upper Crust Breakfast Cheese and Bacon Coronary Croissant] very rich. Really, they're just like you and I. Maybe they have more yachts, slightly fewer cold sores, more beachfront houses in Mustique and spend slightly less time spent jostling gnarled and potentially violent elderly women at the unveiling of the late night Asda reduced basket. But really the rich are just people too, albeit more successful, wealthy, driven, leisured, healthy, important, politically influential, better nourished, genetically enhanced, better educated and more likely to be involved in regular Caribbean speedboat excursions with a selection of elite Peruvian underwear models.

So the Mill is only partially titillated by news in this morning's Times that Liverpool are "a takeover target" for the seventh-richest man in the world, Mukesh Ambani, and, separately, Sahara group chairman Subrata Roy, who has enough money to wear a different pair of solid gold clogs every day of the week and still be able to take a two-week holiday in a static caravan in Bridport during half-term week. Both men have apparently tendered a bid to pay off Liverpool's £237m debt and take a 51% stake in the club. Embarrassing pastel-shirted, capering American doofuses Tom Hicks and George Gillett are digging in for a deal that either buys them out completely or leaves them with a controlling stake.

Also in the Times the world's most important man, Marouane Chamakh, could be about to go on about moving to Arsenal again for a bit after his spell spent going on about moving to Liverpool "collapsed". Arsenal are "closing in on his signature". West Ham and Internaziona