Well this is just getting more and more confusing.
Forget any of the actual confirmed signings of transfer deadline day, the big story everyone was talking about was the extraordinary events unfolding at Chelsea, where Ross Barkley was expected to be unveiled along with Danny Drinkwater as Antonio Conte’s big last minute recruit.
Then there was the dramatic news coming out of the Everton camp that the deal was off, after Ross Barkley dramatically decided mid-medical examination that he no longer fancied joining Chelsea and would rather stay at Goodison Park. It led to unprecedented pisstakery all over social media.
But now Barkley has finally come out to address the rumours on Twitter, by categorically denying that any medical took place. He couldn’t be more emphatic about the matter:
Contrary to a number of reports in the press, I did not undertake a medical with any club at any point.
— Ross Barkley (@RBarkley8) September 2, 2017
So that’s that, right? The player reckons it was just media bullshit and there was nothing to the story. Well, it would be, except Barkley is now directly contradicting his own head honcho at Everton. The source of the story on deadline day wasn’t some spurious hack, but Goodison Park bossman Farhad Moshiri.
So it turns out someone somewhere is telling fibs. The question is who…
"Reports in the press" (reporting what Everton owner Moshiri told Sky) https://t.co/d554LoJuKr
— Tim Nichols (@TimNicholsDM) September 2, 2017
2 things
1. There's no way Ross knows the word 'contrary'
2. Moshiri said his agent told him he had changed his mind after a medical— EFC People's Group (@ThePeoplesGroup) September 2, 2017
