00:00À 4 p.m. yesterday, we got a contact from Chelsea.
00:04OK, we sold a player on this position.
00:09Deal done.
00:10Is there any possibility that Monaco is open to sell a min?
00:13The answer was the same.
00:14No, it's not.
00:15At this moment, at 4 o'clock, Ballo was in Liverpool making his medicals.
00:20Everything was going pretty well.
00:22Around 7 p.m., we were contacted by Everton, raising questions on the medicals of Ballo,
00:31which for our medical staff, which for the personal medical staff of the player,
00:37there was totally no sense.
00:40It took for Everton around 2-3 hours to go deep on the assessment,
00:45check with other doctors.
00:46This is a normal situation when the doctor of the club raises concerns.
00:51This was ongoing.
00:53In meanwhile, as everything on the last days, this was in the press quite quickly.
00:59I would say around half an hour after we were contacted.
01:03It was already in the media that, oh, Ballo is failing on the medicals.
01:07And then, of course, Chelsea saw the opportunity.
01:11OK, Monaco needs money.
01:13Ballo is struggling there.
01:15Let's go.
01:15Let's try.
01:16And this is the game.
01:18It's fair to play this game.
01:19There is no problem.
01:21Chelsea came, called us.
01:23Oh, maybe I can be here for the solution.
01:25And on this moment, we had to open the door for the discussion.
01:30We had discussions between the conditions for Lamine to go to Chelsea.
01:35At the same time, the medical discussion was ongoing with Ballo.
01:41And what happened was that around 10 o'clock in our time here, maybe a bit earlier, Everton realized that,
01:49OK, there is no problem.
01:50We are ready to do.
01:51Let's sign the contract.
01:54As soon as we got the information, yes, we did came back to Chelsea and told, OK, we have our
02:01deal there.
02:01There is no deal on Lamine.
02:04Because it's also fair to do this.
02:06It's also part of the game.
02:16And basically, the allegation of Ballo is that I'm not feeling well by the way the club treated me.
02:23I'm not feeling well by the way the medical department of Everton brought doubts about my future or my healthy.
02:32I have nothing, so I'm not comfortable to sign a long contract here.
02:37And that's the way we finish our transfer window.
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