[Salopbaggie]

Why blame Allardyce when you don’t know what went on. Why not blame the cockneys for being childish,you can’t have your new player , playing against us.

Simple I do not need to know who said what when. We do know that we signed Snodgrass from West Sham. We know he was not played against the Sham. We know that Allardyce made a statement saying it was agreed that we would not play him against the Sham in this game. it takes two sides to make a deal, even if the conditions were totally West Sham's, we did not have to agree to it. And like was mentioned Allardyce does have form for this type of transaction (doggy).

Premier League regulation I7: “No club shall enter into a contract which enables another party to that contract to acquire the ability materially to influence its policies or the performance of its teams in league match.

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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.

It would not be a problem if he had not played against the Dingles or if we had signed him on loan for two weeks with the option to buy, but as soon as he took the field against Wolves as a 'full' West Brom player. he can not legitimately then be left out because of a deal between two club.