Date: Thursday, 1 January 2026Location: Bradford City Offices – Michael Stone's Office
Thin sheets of rain slid down the windows in wavering lines, the gray morning outside heavy with the kind of cold that didn't announce itself—it just seeped through coats and into your bones. Bradford's offices at Valley Parade hummed with a low, nervous energy, like a storm gathering off the coast, unseen but impossible to ignore.
Jake Wilson sat across from Michael Stone, the club's sporting director, the heavy oak desk between them littered with papers that hadn't been there an hour ago.
The January Transfer Window had opened at midnight.
By ten o'clock, the future was already knocking.
Michael didn't say anything when he slid the folders across the desk. No commentary. No small talk. Just the facts—stamped, signed, delivered.
Jake flipped the top one open.
Emeka Okafor: Bayern Munich—£20 million offer.Below that, fresh interest—Inter Milan. Juventus.
Another folder.
