Napoli paid Tottenham 48.00M SVC for Francesco Esposito at 14:08 UTC on Saturday. Just under four hours later they lost the best player in the building.

Désiré Doué, 92-rated and valued at 38.28M, picked up a 50-day injury in the 1-0 win at Sassuolo. The game calls it "minor". Napoli won't: he's back on 27 December, and their league season ends at Roma on 23 December. That's all 12 remaining league games gone, plus Udine in the cup on 16 November and Stuttgart in the continental knockout a week later.

looplab's side are fifth on 43 points, one behind Milano Blue and Torino White. Esposito, 83-rated and 21, cost 6.5 times his value, and his agent is Tottenham's own manager, Nickx. He arrives with his morale at "so so". Tottenham are 18th with 178.63M in the bank.

Brighton lose Estupiñán into next season

Joachim's Brighton, 10th on 36 points, have lost left-back Pervis Estupiñán Tenorio for 118 days. He's due back on 5 March 2027, two months after this season ends. At 3.65M he's the most valuable of at least 12 players handed major injuries on Saturday.

Elsewhere on the treatment table:

• João Mior (Barcelos, 83) — 67 days
• Antony Daniel Alonso Espinoza (Frosinone, 79) — 67 days
• Lalengmawia Ralte (V Poltava, 79) — 56 days
• Newton Araújo (Swindon T, 78) — 52 days
• Zeze Sessegnon (Messina, 65) — major, 86 days
• Carlos Vivas González (Tachira, 72) — major, 85 days
• Hakan Çalhanoğlu (Milano Blue) — 10 days, a nuisance for the third-placed side

The 12x weekend

By my count, eight of the 15 biggest fees since Saturday afternoon landed exactly on 12 times the player's value, the most the game allows a club to bid.

High Wycombe are ninth in ENG Division 4. On 5 November they sold Caleb Taylor to FernandoTorres's Granada for 51,529,500 SVC, exactly 12x, and banked 95% of it. On Saturday evening they bid at the ceiling three times in 94 minutes, committing 28,488,527 SVC on players for a club whose whole squad is worth 11.5M:

• Viacheslav Surkis, from litogalo's Cairo Red — 11,992,500
• Martín Tejón Fauli, from Mcfly32's Aue — 9,994,500
• Paolo Rozzio, from McflyChill's Reggio nell'Emilia — 6,501,527

The last two deserve a second look. Aue listed Tejón Fauli at 416,438 SVC. High Wycombe bid 24 times that, 3 minutes 36 seconds later, with no rival bidder. Reggio listed Rozzio at 19:47:34 UTC and he was sold at 19:48:30, for the asking price, on the only bid.

High Wycombe's manager and biggest shareholder is McflyChicken. He's also the biggest shareholder at Aue, with 21,741 shares, and that payment now makes up almost all of Aue's 9.96M bank balance. Two more managers carry the name: Mcflyhoverboard at Helmond and McflyJnr at Boulogne-sur-Mer.

A shared prefix proves nothing about who's behind an account, and nothing I've found shows a rule being broken. Multi-accounting is allowed. When a manager asked in #support whether you can sell players between your own clubs, moderator tyki answered:

Yes, but rule V applies

That rule warns against doing "dodgy things" between accounts. Whether any of this qualifies is for the FA, not me. Reggio, bottom of ITA Division 3, have already spent 2.64M of theirs on Arnór Sigurðsson, also at 12x.

Sniped and shipped

Udine, 17th in Serie A, were about to lose Bruno Duarte (85) to Caxias do Sul Green's 30M bid. thiagoroszendo came in at 37,000,005 SVC with 15 seconds left on a 72-hour auction. That's 7.2 times his value, and Estrella's Beograd Red bank the difference.

Stuttgart got their price for 78-rated Noham Kamara, who sat listed for 13 days at the ceiling until PablitoAimar's Kaiserslautern paid 35,788,500. Stuttgart hold 363.03M, second only to Wolverhampton's 388.27M.

Also done: Middlesbrough sold Matthew Barkell Clarke to Moreira de Cónegos for 15M, and O'Higgins paid Monthey 12M for Leonardo Caetano Barroso. Lazio have transfer-listed Jordan Veretout.

Pen to paper

Four-year deals went to Stuttgart's Cristiano De Paoli, Albacete's Stavros Pilios, Monterrey's Ryan Merlen and Miranda de Ebro's Nick Doodeman. Tejón Fauli signed for four more seasons 96 minutes after his move to High Wycombe went through.

Dugouts and debts

Joecliffxx has taken over at Bundesliga side Mainz, fikingk at UNAM and Bambin0 at Darmstadt. Dunaivtsi got through three appointments in 25 hours: Milando, then Romanjsisoq0, who left for Malmö after seven minutes, then ahmadluthfi. Malmö are 1.06M in the red.

Orlando (-3.29M) are the game's poorest club, ahead of Suva Reka (-2.99M), Dinamo (-2.51M), Tondela (-2.35M) and F Barreiro (-2.23M). At the other end sit Ashidamana's Braintree, in the sixth tier with 196.48M in the bank, 30 times the value of their squad.