The former head of Sunderland explains on the reasons that motivated the shocked departure of Asamoah Gyan

Sports News from Tuesday, July 23, 2019

Source: GHANAsoccernet.com

2019-07-23

Former Sunderland chairman, Niall Quinn, has shed light on the reasons for the departure of Asamoah Gyan.

Gyan joined French club Rennes in Sunderland in August 2010 for £ 13 million after his impressive performance at the 2010 FIFA World Cup ™.

The Ghanaian striker left the Black Cats to join the Al-Ain after only two seasons as a major member of the club.

Seven years after the departure of the 33-year-old poacher, Niall Quinn, who was then president of the Birmingham-based training, revealed why the Ghanaian had left the club unexpectedly.

"Whatever the players, I'll tell you what the agents say and what's going on behind the scenes," revealed the former Irish striker.

"With Asamoah, he came to us – via his agent – who said:" I had a huge offer in the Middle East and I have to go, "which we told him:" Look, we can not do that. "

"We waited six months to find out if he was going to get back on the line, we also gave him a new contract – though he was pale compared to what was on Al-Ain's table and he pressured him to make the move. "

"We were hoping he's going for three months, that he hates that and that he wants to come back …"

Quinn continued, "No, he did not do it.The fact is that they were probably offering him five times the amount he was paying with us and we were told that he was not There was no tax, so in theory, it was ten times the amount that he was here.

"If we were at the top of the league and fighting for a Champions League place, we would have more ability to keep the players as the top four clubs, but we were really Sunderland who was really trying to make everything work."

"If we had to give one of those players the money they were missing – well, I was not going to sanction that because it would put the club in a terrible position.

"We were not getting any more money, we had reached the level of what we could spend, knowing that Ellis Short was giving us a lot of money, and another level would have pushed the club to another level.

"It was the financial reality of our life." Asamoah, Jordan (Henderson), these transactions alone brought in between £ 50 and £ 60 million, and you must balance a book because Ellis had I remember that (Lee ) Cattermole had become available late in the window and we had managed to convince him to beat other clubs because Ellis had offered to pay the fees in advance – he allowed us to do it. things like that, people do not know about Ellis and it's things like that, where he showed his courage and it was not the only time. "

"But when you do that, you have to balance the books.You saw it this year with Josh Maja.It was terrible that his development here was delayed by what happened."

"I understand exactly what the board has been going through while it's going on, you can have big problems unless you're in the top six in the big league, the agents can just go to other clubs and say : "Look how good my player is. to Sunderland in the lower half of the league, imagine what he can do for you. "

"He will then raise the bar with the player, tell him that he can get more money, put pressure on the club for that he sells and we made the decision to sell because we risked to put the club in financial danger, so I made those decisions on the players you just mentioned. "

"What you're hoping for is that you can get as good a player half as much, but it's very difficult to do and for us it did not happen."

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