Just when you thought the silly season couldn't get any sillier, we get this -- Barcelona forward Samuel Eto'o has announced that he's seriously considering a transfer offer from PFC Kuruvchi, a club based in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

Yes, Uzbekistan. Go look for it on a map. I'll give you a minute.

When news of this first broke earlier this week, PFC Kuruvchi announced it was a done deal, prompting most people -- including officials at Barca -- to wonder if April Fool's Day comes 3 1/2 months later in Kazakhstan's southern neighbor. Then yesterday, Kuruvchi posted photos of Eto'o in Tashkent on their web site. That's when the weirdness meter spiked.

Seriously, why would this 27-year-old Cameroon striker, who's still in prime of his career, leave European club football for Uzbekistan?

Well, there's the money, for one thing. Kuruvchi is reportedly putting up $40 million to sign Eto'o to a six-month deal. For the time being, we'll ignore the issue of where they might have gotten this money. Kuruvchi must own one of Uzbek's largest gold mines or something.

And why only six months? Because Kuruvchi just made it to the quarterfinals of the Asian Champions League, and the club believes Eto'o can help them win the title and get into the FIFA Club World Cup in December. Just imagine the moment when Manchester United shows up for the Club World Cup and says, "Let's just get this ov-- Holy crap! We have to defend Samuel Eto'o!?!??"

Meanwhile, an angry Borat is now trying to raise money for Kazakhstani Premier League champions FC Aktobe to buy Didier Drogba from Chelsea -- which, incidentally, would be the first offer Drogba will have received all month.

I'm pretty sure this transfer is never going to happen. The fact that we live in a world where it could happen, though, gives me a strange sort of hope for the future of mankind. If we're going to dream, we might as well dream as big as Kuruvchi.

(H/T: The Offside)