Transfer Deadline Day Highlights
Avram Keeps Hold of His Stars. After the first three matches, Avram Grant‘s West Ham prop up the Premiership table. Even this early in the season they face an uphill battle to climb out of the drop zone. So it’s a good job they kept hold of the two or three star players who might make the difference between Premiership survival and Championship chumps. Scott Parker was rumoured to be leaving for Tottenham. Carlton Cole looked like joining Liverpool. Both stayed. Over to you Avram.
Has Harry Lost His Transfer Touch? Tottenham Hotspur officially became the saddest club of the summer transfer window when reports filtered through late this afternoon that Ryan Babbel was circling London in a helicopter waiting for a deal to be struck between Spurs and Liverpool. Babbel never landed in North London and neither did anyone else for that matter. By the end of the transfer window, a deal for Real Madrid‘s Rafael Van der Vart had come and gone (although we’re awaiting final confirmation), and oddly enough Harry Redknapp had a bid to swap Robbie Keane for Luis Saha and Steven Pienaar rejected by Everton. (It’s cheeky, it’s true, and we can’t believe it either.)
Stever Bruce Breaks With Gyan. Buying players is not an exact science. Just ask Manchester City. Not many clubs can afford to splash double figures on a player and come back empty handed. That includes Steve Bruce‘s Sunderland who broke their club transfer record fee on £13 million Asamoah Gyan. It’s common knowledge that you never buy players on the back of impressive international tournament outings and there’s nothing to point to Gyan being the exception to the rule. The Ghanaian striker joins Sunderland from Ligue Un side Rennes (not exactly formidable experience) having failed to impress earlier in his career with Udinese in Serie A. The omens don’t look good for Steve Bruce.
Will Asamoah Gyan still be crying next summer?
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