Friday was crazy in the Maxi Gomez saga.
There were reports of West Ham officials arriving in Vigo on a private jet and trying to ruin Valencia’s agreement to sign the Celta Vigo player.
Celta weren’t prepared to play and wouldn’t listen to the Hammers delegation, and Faro de Vigo now explains why.
Valencia had agreed to pay €14.5m plus bonuses, plus Santi Mina, plus a defender on loan for two years. That pleased Celta as the players would be able to start preseason training almost immediately.
Faro de Vigo explains that on top of that there were problems with the Stellar Group, the agency which represents Gomez. It sounds like Celta have a very cold relationship with Stellar, and are working to minimise their influence at the club.
Celta ‘don’t want to enter into dealings’ with Stellar, and ‘it’s not in their plans to favour’ the group ‘in any way’. They’re said to want a €3m commission, which isn’t Celta’s problem anyway.
Whatever has gone on previously has clearly left a sour note.
West Ham are said to have offered €40m on Friday, but Celta ‘put the brakes’ on their efforts.
Meanwhile, Maxi Gomez himself has ‘shown firmness in his personal criteria despite having entrusted his future to that agency’.
