On the verge of being concluded, the transfer of the left laréal of Wydad de Casablanca, Yahia Attiyat-Allah, in Ligue 1, finally flopped.
The French club, Montpellier, had, in fact, made the recruitment of the wydadi, author of a good performance in the World Cup, a priority, and did not hesitate to put the price asked by the WAC.
After this “failure”, Montpellier does not hesitate to accuse the president of the WAC, Said Naciri, of having derailed this transfer because of its “legally impossible” requirements.
According to the newspaper L’Equipe, while Attiyat-Allah, 27, had spent all day Monday at the French Embassy to obtain his visa, his advisers and a delegation from Montpellier, who were at Marseille airport. , ready to take off, decided not to board.
The cause? Said Naciri would have imposed that the sum (transfer amount) be paid to him in full before the player’s medical examination and the signing of his contract. Which is legally impossible, according to regulations and French law, notes L’Equipe.
The transfer canceled on the last details (size), the Moroccan international finally joined his teammates in training in Rabat in anticipation of the mondialito, and Montpellier relaunched the track of Toulouse Issiaga Sylla, whom he hopes to enlist before the end of the mercato, this Tuesday midnight.