What Idiot Blocked Dyer Deal?

Last Updated : 04-Aug-2007 by

Why would "someone" go back on a deal that had been cut and dried?

Although Dyer has a history of hamstring and shin trouble, somehow he passed a day-long medical at a London hospital on Thursday.

And that lined up a move that seemed to keep EVERYONE happy.

a) West Ham boss Alan Curbishley knows no better, and we thought we had finally got some sucker to take King Chav.

b) Dyer wants to be beside his children (who are actually in Ipswich(?)) but geography has never been Kieron's strong point.

c) Big Sam wants the money for more signings.

d) The Toon Army have counted down the days to his departure.

e) Lee Bowyer wants to finish off the fight that Alan Shearer broke up at St James' Park.

f) And the Hammers fans know no better.

Then SOMEONE hikes up the price by £2m and it all goes arse-over-tit!

West Ham sent King Chav away, complaining that Newcastle had reneged on an agreement reached on Wednesday by increasing his price at the last minute.

The two clubs had agreed that West Ham would pay £5m plus a further £1m related to appearances but that basic £5m was raised to £7m shortly before the player was due to put pen to paper.

Sources close to Dyer - who first suspected a hitch when Newcastle failed to return West Ham a signed copy of the originally mutally approved transfer forms - appeared pessimistic that the deal could be revived last night. 

West Ham are now adamant they will not be returning to Newcastle unless Mike Ashley, Newcastle's owner, lowers his total demand to £6m.

If the deal was stopped by Ashley, as seems to be the case, Allardyce is not far off the mark by saying "the owner and the new chairman know nothing about football".

Newcastle were regarded as having pulled off a coup in collecting £6m for the injury-prone Dyer, who earns around £60,000 a week at St James' Park. And if Ashley has blown this deal he should return to being "the Howard Hughes of business" and go back to hiding under the bed!

But Mr Ashley ... leave yer fat wallet in Big Sam's office before you go!