Planet Swans ArchivesWith West Ham looking a terrible side at the bottom of the Premier League at the moment, Sullivan is clearly trying the age old family trick of showing their ambition but how close they were to players in the same way they tried with Andre Ayew when we first signed him.
Speaking on their official website, Sullivan said รขโฌลOverall Slaven is happy with the business we have done during the summer transfer window
รขโฌลWe received the manager’s wish-list before the window opened and we have managed to get the top four players on it.
รขโฌลGrzegorz Krychowiak and Renato Sanches were both offered to the manager before their switches elsewhere, but he told us that he is happy with the squad he has.
รขโฌลAs a board we are behind Slaven, and he believes he has the tools to turn around our form and rectify our disappointing start to the season.รขโฌย
Let’s get this right here, at no point in any of the reports on Sanches did anyone mention West Ham and it’s very strange that this comes out at a time when they are being criticised for their transfer dealings. Mind you, the family has form – remember when they were criticised for missing out on Ayew?
@RyanGodbold1 we offered 90k a week! Swansea offered 120k
— Jack Sullivan (@jsullivanwhu) August 15, 2015
This one is a simple one – you didn’t miss out David, you just weren’t there at all but you’ve heard of the player so it sounds good. Football fans aren’t that thick.
Interestingly, Sullivan has already been accused of lying by Sporting Lisbon. Sullivan claimed that “It is no secret that we made a club-record bid for Sporting Lisbonรขโฌโขs William Carvalho but unfortunately that offer was rejected a couple of weeks ago.
“Late last night [Thursday] Sporting Lisbon made contact to accept the original offer, but unfortunately it was just too late in the day, and we simply did not have enough time to put the player through a medical.
“We were not prepared, as a club, to buy a player for that amount of money without him having gone through adequate medical checks”.
In response to his statement, Sportingรขโฌโขs director of communications Nuno Saraiva has said: รขโฌลDavid Sullivan lies.
รขโฌลAt Sporting, as has already been said by our president, no proposal has been made for the player William Carvalho.
รขโฌลThe football industry is not the set of an adult film in which all obscenities are allowed.
รขโฌลSo the boss of a club demands a lot more than this intellectual pornography.
รขโฌลMr David Sullivan has a duty to prove what he says. That is why Sporting challenges him to publicly show the proposals he claims to have made as well as the evidence that Sporting received them.”
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