West Ham United sold Andre Ayew to Swansea but Ki Sung-Yueng was not allowed to go the other way. Is there a lesson to be learned?
Andre Ayew looked like a man with something to prove with the forward instrumental for Swansea City as they beat West Ham United 4-1 in the Premier League.
Ayew returned to the Liberty Stadium on deadline day for a club record fee of £18million (possibly rising to £20million, BBC) 18 months after leaving Swansea for the Hammers.
The result moved the Swans above West Ham on goal difference and with only three points separating them and the drop zone, ensured that David Moyes’ men are still very much in a relegation battle.
As Ayew ran riot against his former employers it made the decision from the hierarchy at the London Stadium to sell a player to one of their direct rivals for going down seem all the more baffling.
It is mistake that the Swans themselves were not going to make themselves, rejecting an approach from the East Londoners to sign their midfielder Ki Sung-Yueng in January, as reported by Wales Online at the time.
Yet even though the South Wales outfit refused to allow Ki to join a relegation rival, Ayew was still allowed to move the other way hours later and while the Ghana international may not have had a future under Moyes, presenting one to the 28-year-old at Swansea now looks a little reckless.
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