2024-02-02 18:42:53
What if OL withdrew its name from the long list of French clubs having become disillusioned at the end of a transfer window, noting that an almost finalized transfer was derailed due to the whims of a Premier League club? In any case, this is the trend this Friday afternoon, the day after the big fail came from West Ham regarding the loan of Algerian international Saïd Benrahma, if we are to believe the general director of the Lyon club Laurent Prud’homme.
In the middle of a press conference at the Décines training center, in order to take stock of this very active transfer window on the part of OL, they received a message which he shared with the journalists: “The Fifa has just accepted our appeal and validated the request for an international transfer certificate for Saïd Benrahma. » “Our efforts are paying off. The FFF has requested a certificate from the English federation, which has seven days to accept,” explains Laurent Prud’homme, alongside a suddenly smiling John Textor.
Betis Sevilla also cheated by West Ham
The Hammers winger has been present in Lyon since Thursday with his family and his advisors, and he had both passed his medical examination and signed his paid loan contract (estimated at 5 million euros, with an option to purchase of around 10 million euros) with OL. And this before noticing that his London club had not entered essential computer data on Fifa’s TMS platform before 11:59 p.m. on Thursday, which it has since done outside the deadlines of the winter transfer window.
“It was quite impressive to see the player’s mother in tears, Saïd dreams of playing at Olympique Lyonnais, he really wants to come,” says Laurent Prud’homme, who stayed Thursday evening with all of Saïd Benrahma’s entourage , just like OL sporting director David Friio. “In constant dialogue” with the leaders of West Ham, who had “validated the deal” on Thursday, the Lyon decision-makers approached those of Betis Sevilla. The Andalusian club was also cheated on Thursday evening in similar conditions by the Hammers, regarding the transfer of Spanish midfielder Pablo Fornals. The epilogue could therefore be happy in the coming hours for OL as well as for Betis.
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