The 27-year-old’s agent Sigi Lens revealed that his client turned down a last-minute loan offer from Fulham after Fiorentina deal collapsed.
Ajax Amsterdam's out-of-favour striker, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Mounir-El-Hamdaoui-c26905, rejected a six-month loan move to Fulham in the recently concluded winter transfer market after his alleged move to Fiorentina had collapsed.
The Moroccan International arrived at Amsterdam Arena in the summer of 2010 after spending three successful seasons with http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/AZ-c38571 Alkmaar. He netted an impressive 13 goals in 26 appearances in his first season.
However, he has failed to feature in a single match for the Amsterdammers since April 2011 following a dispute with the head coach, Frank de Boer.
The technically gifted striker looked all set to move clubs in the summer window but no club mananged to put forward an acceptable deal.
When the winter transfer market opened on January 1, Hamdaoui’s departure from Ajax seemed to be on the cards. Furthermore, when Fiorentina tabled a bid for the attacker in the final week of the January transfer window, it seemed obvious that the 27-year-old’s
move to the Serie A outfit will materialise.
However, the Amsterdammers management demanded a bank guarantee from the Italian club with less than three hours remaining in the transfer window to slam shut. The Viola failed to provide the guarantee, and the move collapsed.
The Moroccan's agent, Sigi Lens, revealed that Fulham offered his client a six-month loan deal just before the close of the transfer window, but his client rejected the offer.
“At 8:44pm (after the collapse of the deal with Fiorentina), Jeroen Slop (Ajax's finance director) sent me a text message proposing to send the player on a five month loan deal to Fulham (with El Hamdaoui's former coach Martin Jol), but we were still in
Florence and anyway, Mounir said no”, Lens was quoted as saying to the media.
Hamdaoui has an ongoing contract with the Amsterdammers that runs until the end of the 2013/14 campaign.
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