It's 100% part of the rules SSN have just confirmed it. No deal is agreed to be allowed that favours another club in a situation like this; obviously loans are different.Is there actually any rule against that?
They can't throw the book at them if they haven't broken any rules, can they?
I guess West Brom must have agreed to it as part of the deal.
I wouldn't think a rule exists TBH, an agreement between teams that's drawn up & agreedCheating again. Lets hope this time the FA throw the book at them; in the agreement to sign Snodgrass they've put in a clause that he can't play against them against league rules.
Don't think it's a big deal. The alternative would've been West Ham didn't sell him to West Brom until after the two teams had played. Probably wasn't even wrote down and more of a gentleman's agreement so West Brom could've broke the terms if they'd really wanted to. I imagine it happens a lot more than people realise. It just isn't made as public as it has been in this case.
Trying to deflect from the fact they lost again.Proterozoic Sam Allardyce once again misses the nuance of the modern game. As said, likely happens all the time "off the record" and would have gone entirely unnoticed if not mentioned by Sam. Chairmen be pulling out their hair and their wallets due to his incompetency.
Yep, exactly that. If it's against the rules then West Brom should have played him amd then challenged West Ham to take action against them. The truth is it was probably an agreement between Moyes and BFS.Trying to deflect from the fact they lost again.
Trying to deflect from the fact they lost again.
Covering all the bases in case they lost ha! They need to sign some players or they're in big trouble.He said it before the match had kicked off.
He’s always getting himself involved in dodgy stuff. Wouldn’t trust him to take my bins out
Has the baby arrived yet Block?