We’d all like to believe in karma- when it applies for good. The notion that ‘what goes around, comes around’ is a romantically-human expectation that whatever you sow you’ll reap. Unfortunately these things do have a habit of coming around – but for the bad deeds and the good. Proof, if ever it were needed, of football Karma has come to West Ham, in an unfortunate reminder that people don’t forget when you dump on them.
The Irons’ failed bid for Columbian striker Jhon Duran is a case in point. Teasing and seducing Duran last summer to the point where he was sufficiently confident of a transfer to post his now – infamous crossed Hammers’ West Ham salute on instagram whilst still a ‘Villa player – and then not keeping the pledge to sign him- was clearly an epic fail.
We don’t know all of the in’s and out’s as to who at London Stadium reneged on the deal but Duran was left high and dry looking a total Charlie with his home fans – and he never forgot how West Ham had failed him after promising to bring him to London Stadium.
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So payback came in several forms – the goal against the Hammers was poetic justice- but the second fiasco of the winter’s failed attempt to land him when he left for Saudi and the news just last night that he’d sidestepped interest from West Ham in taking him on loan and walked towards Turkish side Fenerbahce and wily Jose Mourinho is not another slap in the face for the Hammers, just more poetic justice and karma in action.
Sports journo Yagiz Sabuncuoglu broke the news:
Had the Irons not treated Duran shabbily and walked away first time around, he’d be a West Ham player and would have saved the whole Fullkrug misadventure to boot. Talk about karma.