Sam Allardyce says ‘the weirdest situation’ stopped Davy Klaassen joining Napoli.
The Dutch midfielder had looked set to move to the Serie A giants until the end of the season on deadline day of the January transfer window.
However the move failed to come to fruition, with claims Napoli’s realisation he could not play in the Europa League brought their interest to an end.
Allardyce, though, claims it was a strange situation involving third parties that led to the move collapsing, adding that Klaassen should be disappointed not to have departed Goodison Park.
He said: “I got the weirdest situation on Klaassen about sporting contracts were the difficult.
“I can’t quite expand on that but a sporting contract he has with a sporting company was a part of the reason why it failed.
“God knows why or how. This is one of the best moves he could’ve had in Europe but for whatever reason, and whoever fault it was, it failed.
“We’re disappointed but he should be far more disappointed than us that he’s still here and not playing in Napoli in the Italian league.
“I don’t know why they couldn’t get over the hurdles put in front of them but they didn’t.”