It makes no difference if they were on holiday or not, there's no way this gets resolved in a week or two.Convenient. As if you would put off a £85m move because some lawyer is on his jolly’s lol.
Best for all parties that this issue is resolved before we make another move for the player.
It seems pretty clear that Sullivan, the player and his agent all knew about this before the transfer and deliverateky concealed it. Betway were the firm involved and crucially were also the West Ham sponsor. Someone should ask when FIFA were first informed of the suspicious betting activity, who reported it and when the parties were initially notified. I notice a recent tweet which claims a price of £85m had been agreed for the deal before the FA "confirmed" the investigation. That implies that the matter was already known about by West Ham and only City's diligence stopped the transfer.
Delph, hammanAssuming that's true he's not too bothered about coming here anyway.
Apart from Laporte who had a second chance I can't think of anyone we've ever gone back for once the deal was virtually over the line.....
Me neither but would be interested whether our resident lawyers think if prior knowledge is proven such attempted deception could be actionable under contract and tort should City be so inclined.I initially assumed they knew about it but surely not?
I'm no Saul Goodman but I would have thought they'd be putting their foot right in it if they knowingly sold a player under investigation without disclosing it.
Can't believe we'd agree an £85m deal if there was even the remotest chance the player would be banned.It's an interesting one. If city had not been aware and the transfer was done, City would want to know who knew and when, to maybe get compensation for him being out for months possibly. Then the shit would hit the proverbial.
Maybe they delayed telling us as long as possible (maybe we found out) to draw us closer to the windows end.
Another alternative is we were told from the outset and were of the opinion it was nothing. Time will tell.
We move on his loss,but it’s convenient that they got it postponed temporarily as his barrister is on holiday and any outcome will stretch beyond the transfer window closing,something not right about all this I smell a bit of a rat ..Assuming that's true he's not too bothered about coming here anyway.
Apart from Laporte who had a second chance I can't think of anyone we've ever gone back for once the deal was virtually over the line.....