Fulham winter transfer target labelled ‘a sh**ty’ kid, club appear to have dodged a bullet

 

January was a stressful month for Fulham fans, especially towards the end, when the transfer window was close to shutting.

Lacking numbers up front, Slavisa Jokanovic was after a new striker, and a certain desperate chase ensued, ending with the club bringing in Cyriac on loan from KV Oostende.

However, the Ivory Coast forward wasn’t the club’s first choice, as Sint-Truiden’s Yohan Boli was further up the list.

After some futile efforts, the player ended up staying in Belgium, but more against his will than anything else, even explaining in February he would have ‘loved’ to move to a club like Fulham.

Set to remain with the Jupiler Pro League side until the end of the season at least, the 23-year-old is now embroiled in an agent dispute involving his father, Roger, and one of his former representatives Eric Depireux.

Speaking to DH, the agent reveals how, after helping the striker get out of a tough patch at KSV Roeselare, eventually helping him reach Sint-Truiden in less than two years, he was stabbed in the back by the player and his family.

The decision to extend his client’s stay at the club until 2019 was made without him, and Depireux was eventually frozen out completely, only contacted once by Boli’s mother to tell him to stop trying to get in touch.

However, Depireux does admit he was warned about the striker’s behaviour more than once by others who knew the player and his family, with one even describing Boli as a ’sh**ty kid’, yet he always tried to see the good side of him.

While the agent had nothing to do with the Fulham negotiations, but it appears that Jokanovic and the Craven Cottage faithful have dodged a bullet here by missing out on him.