Daniel Feliciano

Fri 2 February 2024 13:20, UK

West Ham United and Lyon are hopeful that a deal for Said Benrahma can be revived after it collapsed due to a problem with paperwork on deadline day, according to Sam Wallace.

Writing on his personal Twitter account (2 February), the Telegraph journalist reports that both clubs are hopeful that FIFA could give them dispensation for a deal to be done after tech problems caused the paperwork not to go through before the 10:30pm deadline in France.

Lyon blamed West Ham for the collapse of the deal, but both clubs are now hopeful a deal will be ratified to allow the Algeria international to move to Ligue 1.

Crazy

This is a genuinely crazy transfer saga, that looked like it would have been all over on deadline day when Benrahma finally agreed to the move and made his way to France.

The deal was agreed a day or two before that and that delay may ultimately have cost him the transfer, while agents’ fees problems have also been a problem throughout the course of this deal.

But it also wouldn’t have helped that the Premier League scheduled the Hammers to play a game in the evening, and focus was rightly on a performance on the pitch rather than transfers.

With that said though, it’s pretty poor form from all parties that a deal got so far down the line that the player was posing in his new kit with his new fans and then it didn’t get completed in time.

Hopefully FIFA can ratify the deal and allow Benrahma to move on because it would suit all parties more if the deal went ahead, and would stop everyone looking like fools.

In other West Ham news, deadline day decision made after David Ornstein transfer update.

For more West Ham news, follow us on Facebook or join our brand new WhatsApp Channel for instant updates to be sent straight to your phone.