Killed off in one sentence
Folarin Balogun’s move to Everton collapsed in the last hours of the window. Asked about it on Saturday, David Moyes did not stretch the answer out.
“It wasn’t anybody’s fault. It happens all the time in football. The player had an issue in his medical, and that was that. There’s nothing else behind it,” the Scot said.
No standoff over the fee, no late haggling. A medical, and the thing was finished. Moyes wanted the story buried before it grew legs.
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Balogun stuck in Monaco
For the American striker the consequences land straight away. He stays at Monaco, in a spot that has turned uncomfortable.
Filipe Luis left him out of the Conference League squad. A player omitted from a European campaign in September is a player whose standing has slipped.
He had already been training away from the group in recent weeks. Everton was the way out. That door just shut.
January, then
The English market reopens in four months. Between now and then the United States international has to win back trust on the pitch, because a move this stalled does not restart on reputation.
Everton close their window without the forward they wanted. Moyes works with what he has until winter.
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