16-09-2014, 09:03
He’s not a bad player, Andy Delort but it was a strange old do this summer. Something had obviously happened back in France because from about June there was just no way he wasn’t leaving Tours. Every week FranceFootball was telling us that he’d been somewhere trialling, or was ‘set to sign’ for some club or other. Nobody particularly of note, but it was an interesting lesson in how agents can, eventually force through a move.
I guess this was pretty much a shit-or-bust thing; Delort isn’t old at 23, but if he wasn’t in the right shop window now, he’d never get a ‘big’ move in future. All this on the back of one good season with Tours – 24 goals in Ligue 2 is a decent haul, for sure – but he’s never been a great goalscorer before that.
It just seems to me that Wigan forked out about £3m-ish on someone with one good season at a fairly low level of football behind him, badgered into it by the fact he was being hawked round everywhere.
I guess this was pretty much a shit-or-bust thing; Delort isn’t old at 23, but if he wasn’t in the right shop window now, he’d never get a ‘big’ move in future. All this on the back of one good season with Tours – 24 goals in Ligue 2 is a decent haul, for sure – but he’s never been a great goalscorer before that.
It just seems to me that Wigan forked out about £3m-ish on someone with one good season at a fairly low level of football behind him, badgered into it by the fact he was being hawked round everywhere.