20-01-2021, 00:43
It all seems a bit bizarre investigating this really. I'm pretty sure verbal agreements like this happen in football on a daily basis.
Obviously Allardyce didn't know any rules were being breached or he wouldn't have said it. Would've said he was injured or whatever.
I can understand why it's not allowed as it could be seen as teams doing each other favours. It's clearly not a case of that here, it's simply that West Ham didn't want to look stupid if he scored the winner against them so soon after what was basically giving him away. So rather than wait until after our game to sell, a basic verbal agreement was reached. Hopefully some common sense is applied by the FA.
Obviously Allardyce didn't know any rules were being breached or he wouldn't have said it. Would've said he was injured or whatever.
I can understand why it's not allowed as it could be seen as teams doing each other favours. It's clearly not a case of that here, it's simply that West Ham didn't want to look stupid if he scored the winner against them so soon after what was basically giving him away. So rather than wait until after our game to sell, a basic verbal agreement was reached. Hopefully some common sense is applied by the FA.