DBasia.news – AS Roma sporting director, Monchi, gave his official explanation regarding the failure of Malcom to join the Il Lupi. Monchi assumed the player and Bordeaux were violating the rules.
Bordeaux and AS Roma were announcing the deal related to Malcom. The price tag was 40 million euro. But recently, Barcelona came with 42 million euro offering and made Bordeaux uncertain.
“I am very sorry for what has happened, but I believe that we had a complete agreement with Bordeaux – and then offered even more than that to get it done again. President (James) Pallotta made the decision to make the best offer possible, but when the negotiation became an auction we decided to withdraw from it,” Monchi said to Roma TV.
“If someone wants to come to Roma that is great, but ultimately if they do not want to come to Rome then we do not want them.”
“I want to tell our fans that we are continuing to work hard, working to identify a player that wants to come to Roma and is the equal or even better than Malcom.”
Monchi believed the hijack by Barcelona is violating the regulation. Though there’s no signed deal, Monchi said both of them were agreed.
“We started a negotiation with Bordeaux and the player, through his agent, more or less a week ago. After three or four days of intensive negotiations, yesterday at about 17:00 (Italian time) we found an agreement; with the agent, with the player, and with Bordeaux,” Monchi said.
“The deal was done, and we had permission for the player to travel to Rome for a medical. There was a plane scheduled to leave at 21:00 that would arrive at 23:00; everything was sorted. Because of this, we were calm and collected.”