Hull City were the most active club in the Premier League during the January transfer window.
Guingamp president Bertrand Desplat spoke to French media outlet L’Equipe during an exclusive interview, and shared how Hull’s move for striker Yannis Salibur on transfer deadline day collapsed because the Tigers submitted incomplete documents just minutes before the closure of the transfer window.
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The Daily Mail reported that the Humberside outfit had a greed a fee in the region of £9 million to bring the 26-year-old French striker to the KCOM Stadium, before the deal collapsed in the closing minutes of the transfer window.
And now Guingamp’s president Bertrand Desplat has shed some light on Hull’s failed move for Salibur, claiming that the Tigers hierarchy must have lost their cool during the process of trying to get the deal over the line, as quoted by L’Equipe:
Yannis Salibur in action
“We forwarded all the documents at 11:57pm and Hull at 11:59pm, but incomplete. Perhaps there there was a lack of coolness on their side. After that, schedules are schedules. If you have minor differences between what is required and what is sent, it can be corrected the next day with FIFA. It depends on how incomplete it is.”
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Despite missing out on the French striker, Hull have been magnificent of late, and Marco Silva’s appointment as manager, along with his side’s subsequent improvement in form, has Tigers fans believing that their side can not only avoid relegation, but make a sustained push up the league table.
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With such a long way still to go though, they will know through personal experience not to get too far ahead of themselves just yet.
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