Davinson Sanchez’s agent is attempting to clear up the confusion surrounding his failed switch from Tottenham Hotspur to Spartak Moscow while explaining the function the Premier League and Daniel Levy performed in the collapsed deal.
Before swapping North London for Galatasaray over the summer, Davinson Sanchez appeared to be on his way to Russia. Tottenham Hotspur hadaccepted a £13 million bid from Spartak Moscow in June, with a departure reputedly impending at the time.
Oleg Malyshev, Spartak’s wearing director,admitted earlier this week that the ‘deal fell through’ no matter Sanchez being ‘ready’ to pack his luggage and swap the English capital for the Russian one.
And, in conversation with Sport Express, one of the defender’s representatives has shed extra mild on a alternatively bizarre situation.
Tottenham Hotspur saw Davinson Sanchez sale blocked
“The real motive is that the transfer genuinely ought to now not take place,” Fernando Villarreal explains. “The Premier League and the English authorities did now not allow transfers to Russia.”
Villarreal’s comments coincide with what The Guardian reported six months ago. The Premier League, they said, have been strongly discouraging top-flight clubs to make offers with Russian clubs at the time, a by-product of the ongoing political state of affairs in Ukraine.
“Davinson and his spouse have been definitely geared up to move,” Villarreal adds, the Tottenham chairman allegedly confirming to Spartak that the deal would no longer be going ahead.
“At the moment, when we made the decision, we received a name from Spartak and had been told that Daniel Levy knowledgeable them that the switch was impossible.
“There was no hassle for the footballer to go to Russia.”
Now at Galatasaray instead
Sanchez has, at least, made a positive start to life in Turkey. Well, greater effective than Tanguy Ndombele has, anyway.
While a foot injury has kept Sanchez out of the Galatasaray group in recent weeks, the Super Lig challengers have gained seven of their seven top-flight video games with the Colombia worldwide at the heart of their backline.
Tottenham, meanwhile, have moved on three of their central defenders from ultimate season, Sanchez,Eric Dier and Clement Lenglet all departing to be changed by Radu Dragusin and Micky van de Ven.
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