"I wasn't happy about that. And certainly not Carlos (Allbers, techincal director). The takeover was a done deal. We closed the deal with Roefs, and then we also made a verbal agreement with Sunderland that we would acquire Seelt for this amount. They said they'd keep him for a while because he needed to play. Okay, no problem. It just took forever. Last Sunday, they said they had so many injuries that he wasn't allowed anymore."
"On Friday, they called again to say they were going to buy two more defenders after all. So he's back. Well, we'd already made the arrangements, and suddenly we saw him in the Wolfsburg shirt yesterday afternoon. That's not how you should do business. This is the ugly side of football. I've never seen Carlos so angry. He texted them this morning saying he regretted selling Roefs to them."
Robin Roefs joined Sunderland from NEC Nijmegen for a fee around £8.8m, and the signing has so far looked good value. NEC general manager Wilco van Schaik says Sunderland broke a verbal agreement linked to the Roefs deal concerning the acquisition of Seelt. NEC claim Sunderland agreed to keep Seelt for playing time and later reversed that position, then completed other defensive signings while Seelt moved to Wolfsburg. NEC technical director Carlos Allbers reacted angrily and reportedly regretted selling Roefs. A response from Sunderland to these allegations is currently pending.
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