Sky Deutschland reporter Jurek Rohrberg and several other German reports explained on Thursday morning that Pierre-Michel Lasogga to Leeds United had stalled.
The problem was down to missing paperwork. Someone had forgotten to send something, or something had been filled in wrong, and Lasogga would have to fly back to England to get it sorted out.
Initial German reports put the fault at Hamburg’s door, and the inevitable blame shifting has started.
Jurek Rohrberg has issued a ‘correction’ and now says the fault is down to Leeds United not going through a formality and it’s ‘probably not the fault of Hamburg’.
Of course this has very much pleased the local Hamburg press who are letitng all their readers know it’s Leeds United’s fault.
Whether this mini drama has anything to do with Leeds forcing Hamburg to retract a Tuesday night claim the deal was done, wanting to reveal the transfer themselves, is unknown.
