John Hartson

Clem_Snide

Cant remember which book it was in Curbs or Hartson, but I'm sure there was a comment along the lines of "charlton tried to restructure the deal as something showed up in a medical, a compromise couldnt be reached and the deal fell through"

Valley11

Makin, that was it.
Nice one superclive

kodfish

[cite]Posted By: superclive[/cite]Chris makin i think he went to millwall

Curbs tried to buy Malkin from Millwall but the deal fell through on the eve of the Millwall match due to a failed medical.

Rudders22

thanks kodfish thats the one cheers !!

Henry Irving

then millwall got the hump cos the news got out and they couldn't get the 100k we were going to pay from anyone else.

Airman Brown

Hence a great deal of the caution at the club about announcing transfers before they were completed in the ensuing years.

superclive

There you go. Just shows that it ain't done till its on the OS

Valley11

Was it Malkin who had the hump cos we publically announced he failed the medical? Or am I thinking of someone else?

Henry Irving

yes, millwall tried to get us to sign the papers before the medical as they knew he was a crock which may have been why the story of him failing the medical leaked.

Valley11

Interesting - in a John Motson kind of way - that Malkin is now physio at Aston Villa