Following the failure of Lazar Markovic’s transfer to Anderlecht on deadline day, the Belgian media explained the player’s representatives failed to agree personal terms.
Liverpool and Anderlecht had already come to an agreement on a low transfer fee, below, €3m, and the Belgian club were able to get their man because he had less than one year left remaining on his deal at Anfield.
But after two hours of talks no agreement was found, and Markovic finds himself in limbo.
The claims around a failure to agree on a wage package made sense. With a fee agreed and Markovic having played for Anderlecht on loan last season, there doesn’t seem anything else which could have genuinely scuppered the deal.
But the player himself insists that’s not the case, taking to Twitter to state it had nothing to do with money.
Thank you for making such a great effort for trying to get me back in the club. However, money was not the issue !!!!! Good luck in the future 💜 @rscanderlecht
— Lazar Marković (@LMarkec50) September 3, 2018
Judging by the replies to Markovic, there’s not many who believe him.
HLN report that whilst the Liverpool player may not like the money angle being pushed, ‘it does not change anything’. Everyone has lost out, the player, and both clubs.
Het Nieuwsblad state that it was down to money, specifically the player’s ‘pay demands’.
The Serbian is going to have to be more persuasive if he’s to convince people that finances didn’t matter.
