Balogun (Deal off)

[TheRam]

I just saw someone mentioning it in the thread... no idea if it's true, BUT if he did, then that should have been a big old red flag to the recruitment team.

I’d find it mad if a recruitment team pulled out of a deal because the player was late to his flight.

[4evablu]

Don’t see why any of that matters? It’s called getting behind your team COYB

It matters because it highlights a total ineptitude by the very people who are supposed to have knowledge and understanding of how these things work….even down to keeping the lad “occupied and made welcome” in the 10 hours he was inside the club…
How would you feel if you went for job interview was sat there 10 hours and whilst you were there you heard employees talking about other applicants being lined up for your job ? And they thought you may not be suitable….Would that matter to you ?

[CorkyOnTour]

[Surax]

Would it be really be that surprising if it transpires that we exaggerated something to negotiate a better deal because we knew Monaco needed to sell and pissed off the player in the process? Would it really shock anyone if we acted in bad faith and made our own bed here? My gut tells me that we're to blame here, not Balogun.

[CorkyOnTour]

This doesn’t surprise me when his from perspective.
You need to make players feel like gods

[Cozzie]

Would it be really be that surprising if it transpires that we exaggerated something to negotiate a better deal because we knew Monaco needed to sell and pissed off the player in the process? Would it really shock anyone if we acted in bad faith and made our own bed here? My gut tells me that we're to blame here, not Balogun.

It's 100% on us this.

[Cozzie]

There it is. Just as I thought.

Made up something to try and penny pinch. No wonder he felt offended.

Fucking absolute dick heads.

[blueToffee]

It can all be true to some degree.

He may have been getting pushed out by Monaco due to their situation. Clearly that’s a thing that happens. Maybe he was never that keen and the speed bump was enough to pull the handbrake. If he really thought he was injured though surely he would sign the deal unless it was super contingent on him playing.

Maybe he does have issues injury wise, he hasn’t played any games since the World Cup. His recent injury record isn’t that great. He missed basically most of the 24/25 season with shoulder and ankle issues. And around a couple of months the season before.

https://www.transfermarkt.us/folarin-ba ... ler/503770

I’d still say overall this is mostly a problem by us as the club. Either through timing or preparation. However, also possible he wasn’t super keen or does have injury concerns we were right to flag.

Upshot is shit though no matter what the reasons.

[4evablu]

Would it be really be that surprising if it transpires that we exaggerated something to negotiate a better deal because we knew Monaco needed to sell and pissed off the player in the process? Would it really shock anyone if we acted in bad faith and made our own bed here? My gut tells me that we're to blame here, not Balogun.

Na they couldn’t just make something up out of the blue( no pun intended) as the test results would prove otherwise.
I read when the rumours started we were looking at him he’d had an injury after the World Cup missed preseason but was back in training and progressing well…surely Everton were aware of this as it seemed common knowledge out there in the press….yet still progressed the deal….gave him a medical and at this stage it started going tits up…whatever they found/didnt find started the whole renegotiation saga…..I feel if this had happened on say Monday the whole sage would have been sorted to everyone’s satisfaction…..not left until the last hours….

[777Kidnappings]

The way some will absolve the club and or the manager of any wrongdoing is unreal we fucked this up saw a chance to save money and it backfired

Not particularly a fan of moyes but hes not responsible for any of this. No wonder hes been in a mood. Having to deal with a gaggle of clueless morons while we blame him for not playing players who arent fit for purpose and claiming hes turned down an array of top full backs for having too much potential

[777Kidnappings]

Not that it really matters to any of us but how bad is this for Monaco? They must have been desperate for a sale to agree to sell someone else to Chelsea when it originally looked in doubt

[brap2]

Doesn’t matter a jot of it happens six weeks ago. Catastrophic to do it last night.

Played silly buggers and found out the hard way.

[blueToffee]

Not that it really matters to any of us but how bad is this for Monaco? They must have been desperate for a sale to agree to sell someone else to Chelsea when it originally looked in doubt

They’ll probably end up selling Balogun or such to Saudi albeit maybe with less of the Saudi price bump than usual.

Not great for them but there are clubs still buying.

Like us though, they partly shot themselves in the foot by not just doing all this a lot sooner if it was that important. Everyone was needlessly operating on the brink.

[TheRam]

Who’s knows what happened with the medical.

Both sides will put a story out to save face.

What I can be pretty sure of it’s the people involved completely neglected in making the player feel wanted and comfortable in committing his future to this club and he was put off with how we conducted the whole thing.

[blueToffee]

If we suppose for a moment we were genuinely that concerned with the medical that we seriously tried to get Zirkzee and Tammy Abraham in instead (and it wasn’t some elaborate ruse) it wouldn’t make sense to proceed but it almost sounds like we were basically ready to roll the dice by the end with those other options falling through. Which is pretty shit in its own way, as if by own logic it there was a big enough concern…why still go ahead? Unless we really did change the contract massively to depend on appearances or such.