David Sullivan made an official website statement after the transfer window closed in which he said “Grzegorz Krychowiak and Renato Sanches were both offered to the manager before their switches elsewhere, but he told us that he is happy with the squad he has.”
Slav who finally got his right to reply said: “He [Sullivan] likes to talk, it is his right. I said I wanted the player, that is not exactly what happened with those two players.”
“I wanted Carvalho and it looked very, very likely that it would happen and to be fair, during my time at West Ham it is common that when you talk about one player and it will happen, then suddenly three other names are thrown in that distract you from the main target. It was very likely we were going to get him though, they are very good players though of course.”
