“Everything seemed settled” – Deal to bring players to West Ham collapsed despite agreement – Sport WitnessTwo days ago, Santi Aouna of Foot Mercato reported that West Ham United were close to signing João Pedro Neves Filipe, simply known as Jota, after reaching an agreement with the Al Ittihad player.
Healso explained that the 24-year-old is waiting to receive the green light to join the London club.There has been a development in this matter as Foot Mercato stated that the deal to bring the winger to West Ham had fallen through.
The Portuguese has been restricted to a limited role this season and Marcelo Gallardo’s side were keen to get rid of him.
The Middle Eastern club wanted to recruit Nabil Fekir and Real Betis were ready to part ways with the Frenchman.
It is claimed that the prospect of playing with N’Golo Kante and Karim Benzema at Al-Ittihad was attractive to Fekir.
However, they first had to let the former Celtic go to make way for the 30-year-old.Foot Mercato claims “everything seemed to have been finalised” with David Moyes’s side for Jota before the deal fell through.
There is no explanation for what went wrong, but Al-Ittihad’s failure to sign West Ham has stalled the deal for Fekir.This left Al-Ittihad, Fekir and Real Betis disappointed.
