But for the fact that this is our club we're talking about, you'd have to laugh at how pathetically predictable it has become.
I said to my brother at full-time on Saturday that in the wake of that one defeat, the club would now go chasing any suitors for Ramsdale or Berge, and beg them to come back and buy them. And that, because we'd flag that we're desperate, the prices would now be determined by the buyers.
It's McCabe begging Hull to buy Maguire having made an initial stand of refusing an offer, but then giving him away for less. And it's McCabe pushing the Naughton deal through when Spurs were wavering, by chucking in the sweetener of an even better full-back for a million quid.
The names change but the club never does.