Raheem Lawal move collapses
Lawal during his medical in Turkey
MTNFootball.com can specially report that the president of Atletico Baleares, Fernando Crespi, refused to approve for the Nigeria midfielder to join Turkish second division side Adana Demirspor despite a last-ditch effort by the player to convince him.
“The deal has fallen through,” a top source informed MTNFootball.com
“The Baleares supremo blatantly refused. He just wanted to punish the player, pay him back in his own coin.
“What Lawal did to the club was very bad, deserting them when they needed him most for their promotion playoffs.”
The highly-rated midfielder, who made his Eagles debut in the recent friendly in Peru, dumped the club during the playoffs to join the national team for a series of qualifiers in June.
It has seemed like the move would see go through hours to the transfer deadline and so Lawal flew back to Spain to try and personally talk things up with the Baleares bosses.
The club bar the president had accepted a proposal that would have seen them earn a percentage in the player’s subsequent move away from the Turkish second division club.
Another source told MTNFootball.com: “The offer in Turkey was quite lucrative for him, but then Baleares still own him. His contract still has a year to run.”
Lawal is now likely to rejoin the Spanish third division club and start training on Monday after he refused to join them for pre-season training at the height of the dispute.
The player’s international future is also in jeopardy after he was left out of forthcoming 2013 Nations Cup qualifier in Liberia to allow him resolve his problems at his club.
It has seemed like the move would see go through hours to the transfer deadline and so Lawal flew back to Spain to try and personally talk things up with the Baleares bosses.
The club bar the president had accepted a proposal that would have seen them earn a percentage in the player’s subsequent move away from the Turkish second division club.
Another source told MTNFootball.com: “The offer in Turkey was quite lucrative for him, but then Baleares still own him. His contract still has a year to run.”
Lawal is now likely to rejoin the Spanish third division club and start training on Monday after he refused to join them for pre-season training at the height of the dispute.
The player’s international future is also in jeopardy after he was left out of forthcoming 2013 Nations Cup qualifier in Liberia to allow him resolve his problems at his club.
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