RoyalBluemelonhead mcd and himself.
And, of course, it had nothing whatsoever to do with saving a bit more money for the chairman. Wonder whether there was also a loan fee and, if so, how much.
It had everything to do with giving an excellent young keeper pitch time at as high a level as possible to his benefit and hopefully ours eventually, when he wasn't going to be playing for us, because Federici has the No 1 spot rightly or wrongly and has certainly done very little to lose it since he was given it at the start of the season.