{"id":32765,"date":"2020-10-05T14:42:21","date_gmt":"2020-10-05T14:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colossusbets.com\/blog\/?p=32765"},"modified":"2020-10-05T14:42:21","modified_gmt":"2020-10-05T14:42:21","slug":"craziest-deadline-day-transfers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colossusbets.com\/blog\/craziest-deadline-day-transfers\/","title":{"rendered":"5 craziest deadline day transfers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Transfer deadline day has become one of the highlights (or lowlights, depending on your opinion) of the domestic football calendar. The closure of a transfer window means a frantic rush for clubs to secure players in deals that probably should have been completed weeks ago, sex toys being waved in the faces of unsuspecting Sky Sports presenters and, often some truly bizarre transfer stories. We decided to take a look at five of the craziest transfer deadline day transfers in recent memory.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">5 craziest transfer deadline day transfers<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Benjani \u2013 January 2008<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Portsmouth striker Benjani was scheduled to sign for Manchester City in the 2008 January transfer window but the deal nearly failed to materialise after the Zimbabwean striker fell asleep at Southampton airport, missing two separate flights to the north-west.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, Portsmouth chief executive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/sport\/benjani-fell-asleep-and-missed-two-planes-the-real-reason-he-nearly-lost-out-on-city-switch-6648881.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Peter Storrie said<\/a>; &#8220;In his own inevitable, wonderful way &#8211; and we all love Benji so much &#8211; he falls asleep at the airport and misses two planes. You couldn&#8217;t write the script. The next plane at 7 o&#8217;clock got cancelled and the 8.30 was delayed. It just made the whole situation a fiasco.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who has willingly attempted to sleep in an airport may raise an eyebrow to the story, perhaps suspecting that Benjani simply didn\u2019t fancy the transfer much. Nonetheless, the Premier League allowed the move to go ahead after the clubs submitted the paperwork in the nick of time, bringing an end to one of the most bizarre deadline day transfers we can remember.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Peter Odemwingie \u2013 January 2013<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Poor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.givemesport.com\/1542864-remembering-peter-odemwingies-failed-move-to-qpr-on-deadline-day\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Peter Odemwingie<\/a> was on the wrong end of a transfer deadline day horror story in 2013 after the Nigerian, believing that a move from West Brom to QPR had been finalised, jumped the gun slightly by hopping in his car and driving to Loftus Road from the Midlands.<\/p>\n<p>Upon his arrival in London, he discovered that the move hadn\u2019t taken place due to QPR\u2019s failure to offload Junior Hoilett. As a result Odemwingie was denied entry to the stadium and, things going from bad to worse, Sky Sports then cameras noticed that he was arrived and proceeded to interview him through his car window.<\/p>\n<p>While interviews from car windows were hardly a new addition to deadline day, just ask Harry Redknapp, this one was particularly excrutiating as Odemwingie awkwardly tried to remain positive about the transfer which everyone else knew was doomed for failure. The final insult was that West Brom subsequently disciplined the forward for his actions. Ouch.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>David de Gea \u2013 August 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One of the longest running transfer sagas of 2015 turned into one of the greatest deadline day transfers that didn\u2019t happen when David de Gea\u2019s protracted move from Manchester United to Real Madrid collapsed due to a faulty fax machine.<\/p>\n<p>After much to-ing and fro-ing, the two European giants agreed a transfer for the Spanish international goalkeeper. However, as the remaining minutes of the window ticked away, United were unable to send Real Madrid the contract owing to a reported faulty fax machine. Quite why e-mail wasn\u2019t an option and why the world\u2019s biggest football clubs continue to use fax machines at this point remains a mystery.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, de Gea stayed at Old Trafford and the rest is history.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Diafra Sakho \u2013 August 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If Odemwingie driving to London was a transfer deadline day shambles, it was easily outdone by Diafra Sakho\u2019s actions in 2017 which really have to be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/football\/2017\/08\/31\/west-ham-striker-diafra-sakho-spends-deadline-day-cheltenham\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">read to be believed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Eager to leave West Ham and force through a move to Rennes, Sakho flew to France and passed a medical with the French club the day before deadline day, despite the two clubs having not agreed a fee. The following day Sakho flew back to England, missing West Ham training in the process, but rather than going directly to the club to sort out his future, he went to Chelmsford racecourse to watch the day\u2019s <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.colossusbets.com\/blog\/horse-racing-tips\/\"  title=\"racing\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">racing<\/a>. Obviously.<\/p>\n<p>His agent, Mark Mackay, had a horse called Siege of Boston running in the 3:20, so Sakho went to watch it, winning \u00a3500 in the process, before finally going back to the club. Needless to say, none of West Ham\u2019s management or executives had bothered waiting for him and he was forced to stay at the club for a few more awkward months before finally securing his move the following January.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ryan Babel \u2013 August 2010<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One of the more mysterious transfer deadline day dramas involved Liverpool\u2019s Ryan Babel in 2010 in an incident that has gained notoriety and coined the term \u2018BabelCopter\u2019 ever since. Intrigued to know more? Read on.<\/p>\n<p>It emerged early on transfer deadline day that Tottenham were after Babel but then the story went quiet. A few hours later, speculation mounted again after the Dutchman was pictured in a helicopter over London. Even in the lucrative world of the professional footballer, taking a cross country helicopter to sign a contract was unusual though. Things got even odder with rumours of a move to Tottenham or West Ham failing to develop, Babel was then pictured back in Liverpool again. Had he just been sight-seeing for the day? Regardless, #BabelCopter was trending on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>Years later, Babel gave an official explanation of what happened that day to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/sport\/football\/news\/ryan-babel-interview-babel-has-learnt-tub-thump-after-lack-love-liverpool-10154672.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Guardian<\/a>; \u201cIt was the last day of the window, the director of football wanted to sign Cole from West Ham and send me on loan in a swap. He called me and said, \u2018Hey, you can go to West Ham.\u2019 I thought that wouldn\u2019t be bad; I can play regularly and build my confidence. But it was 12pm and the window closed at six so we didn\u2019t have much time. He told me to come to the airport so we can go to London by helicopter. I hate flying so I was nervous. The whole ride was bumpy. When we arrived, we got into the car and Comolli was on the phone constantly. Then he said to me, \u2018There is a five-year deal, you\u2019re going to sign it and with that money, we\u2019ll buy Cole.\u2019 I was confused \u2013 it was a loan and then it became a five-year contract! I called my agent and he said \u2018absolutely not\u2019, so there was no deal. And then he sent me back on the train and he took the helicopter. Now, every window the \u2018Babelcopter\u2019 still makes an appearance on Twitter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You could earn up to \u00a3100 (or currency equivalent) in bonus funds by joining Colossus with our New Player Bonus. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colossusbets.com\/?utm_source=blog&amp;utm_medium=blog_unpaid_content&amp;utm_campaign=blog_newplayerbonus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to join the action.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transfer deadline day has become one of the highlights (or lowlights, depending on your opinion) of the domestic football calendar. The closure of a transfer window means a frantic rush for clubs to secure players in deals that probably should have been completed weeks ago, sex toys being waved in the faces of unsuspecting Sky Sports presenters and, often some truly bizarre transfer stories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[643],"tags":[272,267],"class_list":["post-32765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sport","tag-featurehome","tag-football"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v21.7 (Yoast SEO v27.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>5 craziest deadline day transfers - Colossus Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"With another transfer deadline day here, we decide to take a look at five of the most bizarre deadline day transfers of all time.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.colossusbets.com\/blog\/craziest-deadline-day-transfers\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"5 craziest deadline day transfers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"With another transfer deadline day here, we decide to take a look at five of the most bizarre deadline day transfers of all time.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.colossusbets.com\/blog\/craziest-deadline-day-transfers\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Colossus Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SportsBigger\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-10-05T14:42:21+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.colossusbets.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/GettyImages-1143125179-scaled-e1601908909864.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"2560\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1260\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Ed Acteson\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ed_Acteson\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@ColossusBets\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Ed Acteson\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"5 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.colossusbets.com\\\/blog\\\/craziest-deadline-day-transfers\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.colossusbets.com\\\/blog\\\/craziest-deadline-day-transfers\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Ed Acteson\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.colossusbets.com\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/83d9accfc9a21fd796c6a40412f1c454\"},\"headline\":\"5 craziest deadline day transfers\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-10-05T14:42:21+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.colossusbets.com\\\/blog\\\/craziest-deadline-day-transfers\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":1096,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.colossusbets.com\\\/blog\\\/#organization\"},\"keywords\":[\"FeatureHome\",\"Football\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Sport\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"copyrightYear\":\"2020\",\"copyrightHolder\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.colossusbets.com\\\/blog\\\/#organization\"}},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.colossusbets.com\\\/blog\\\/craziest-deadline-day-transfers\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.colossusbets.com\\\/blog\\\/craziest-deadline-day-transfers\\\/\",\"name\":\"5 craziest deadline day transfers - 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