Monday 28 January 2013

Belligerent Brescia taking mickey- still no money for Diamanti

In a story which seems to have been around forever, West Ham are still waiting on the full payment of the transfer fee from Italian club Brescia for former Iron Alessandro Diamanti. The Hammers sold Italy striker Diamanti to Brescia in summer 2010, from where he moved onto Bologna in (oh bitter irony, given past transfers into the Boleyn Ground) in a third party ownership deal. Irons co-chairman David Gold stated last summer that Brescia owed our club money- it is to be believed that a sell-on clause was inserted into the deal which took the forward back to his native country- and in July of last year, Gold stated on Twitter the club's intentions to "sue Brescia for the money." However, in a tweet sixteen hours ago, the 76 year old admitted to a fan that the issue was "near" to being resolved, but wasn't resolved just yet. Not to take a pot shot at the club; on the contrary, the club are clearly doing all they can to resolve the matter; but this has been dragging on for months now and we have other fish to fry. Surely we have to take this matter to the highest authority in the football land- FIFA, and be done with it.

By Alex Shilling

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