Sam’s Bony story at odds with DS
The first concerns Wilfried Bony and why we didn’t sign him. YAWN! The second sees Sam addressing the subject of Mauro Zarate.
Perhaps he believed the eve of a game against Bony’s team Swansea is the right time to break his silence on why West Ham didn’t sign the striker despite the player not being involved tomorrow because he’s at the African Nations Cup.
He writes: “The first big transfer of this January could be Wilfried Bony’s £30million move from Swansea to Manchester City.
“My recollection was that, yes, we knew about Bony but we all agreed to go for Carroll — with the caveat that if the deal didn’t work out for any reason, we would switch to Bony.”
He adds that Bony was a bigger risk than Carroll because he was unproven in the Premier League saying: “David likes a gamble, which is no problem at all, and when it pays off it’s great. If you keep going down that route, though, you end up with more failures than successes.”
Quite what is served by airing various versions of a near two year old story is a little beyond me to be honest.
David has had his say and now Sam has responded – can that please be the end of it because all it suggests – whether true or not – is that behind the scenes all is not well.
On the Zarate issue the manager writes the player wanted to go saying: “His chances here had been limited and it came to the situation where he didn’t want to stay here.
“If he had remained, in that frame of mind, it would have been difficult to have got the best out of him, so it was the right thing for everyone that he went out on loan to try and play more often somewhere else.”
The tone is more moderate than when telling the player he wasn’t good enough but there’s no explanation as to why he didn’t get more games – the reason Zarate feels the way he does!.
But it won’t go unnoticed that this could be a manager v chairman situation again, Zarate having been Sullivan organised purchase!
Can we please just get on with the football now.