A lot of cliché-peddlers out there enjoy the phrase "a week's a long time in football". But those tired phrase-repeaters are underselling it.

They’re obviously not considering the long, vacant summer months.

A week feels like eternity, and not because it’s hard to keep up with the relentless dramatic twists and turns like mid-season, but because so very little actually happens.

The players and staff take long holidays - or “training camps” as they like to call them - but the football press aren’t afforded the same luxury.

Of course, Jerome Thomas did finally sign for the Eagles this week, but due to the ferocious rumour mill it felt like it already happened weeks ago.

So the hunt for fresh news rolled on again.

In these news vacuum months, something as simple as an unknown face in the midst of the team during a session in Portugal was enough to greatly stoke the fires of speculation in seconds.

So when I woke up on Sunday to read that we're on the way to signing young Spanish midfielder Jose Campana according to the Daily Mail, I took it with a blood-pressure exasperating amount of salt.

Not only was there the initial article that claimed that the Sevilla player and Spanish U20 captain would be flying to London for a medical this week, but also Campana’s Wikipedia page was edited to list him as a Palace player.

You could argue they’re both sources as reliable as a chocolate sun lounger, but the idea of an up and coming Spanish star in our midst is tantalising.

Probably-fictional transfer rumours aside, the confirmed new additions to the squad are looking good.

Stephen Dobbie, Dwight Gayle and Jerome Thomas might not be a completely new-look starting 11, or players with vast international top-flight pedigree, but they already certainly inject an exciting and unknown element into the Eagles’ attacking lines.

I can’t wait to see how they line up alongside our most thrilling established players like Yannick Bolasie and Johnny Williams, and if we add to them with someone as intriguing as Campana that would be incredible.

But I won’t be ordering his name on the back of my new shirt just yet.

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The internet never lies: Jose Campana, the Palace player