Mirror and other outlets reporting that the Green to West Ham deal is off because Collins refused to go the other way as part of the deal. This comes after an authorative report from a journo well plugged into West Ham that they are in any case now satisfied with their existing number two. Not only is it frustrating to not get Collins - though that is his decision and not something anyone can blame our club for - but does that mean Smithies was signed for nothing? Sure, we need a reserve keeper but for a long while we survived with Murphy who cost nothing and played about twice a season in the micky mouse cup or whatever - if, as some suggest, we can't buy a centre half until we sell someone then this seems like a very strange sense of priorities. £2m for a reserve likely to play a handful of games a season is a heck of a lot of money in the Champ when we are scrimping so much elsewhere. Why not have stalled on Smithies till we knew about Green? It was not as if, as far as I know, anyone else was after him. Odd one.
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