Earlier on Wednesday we covered a report from Belgium’s DH which said Ishak Belfodil to Everton is well and truly dead.
The player’s entourage was said to be annoyed when Everton brought other intermediaries into the deal, which stalled things. DH said there was no disagreement between Ronald Koeman and Steve Walsh on the player.
Well, Het Niuewsblad disagree, with the newspaper saying Steve Walsh wanted the transfer, and continued to get Everton to work on it, but it was Koeman who wasn’t sure.
The Belgian newspaper claim Koeman had ‘negative signals’ about the player’s character, but Walsh pushed on anyway, and it all led to the deal seemingly being agreed, then stalling, and then falling to pieces.
There’s disagreement everywhere on this. The Belgian newspapers can’t agree on what Walsh and Koeman think, and there were even earlier claims Everton were getting the player for €4m instead of €12m.
There’s something not quite right about the whole mini-saga, and maybe that will become clearer in the future.
