Leeds United fans were eagerly anticipating an official announcement from the club to herald the arrival of Michael Cuisance from Bayern Munich.
As a matter of fact, the Elland Road outfit were starting to put together promotional material for his unveiling and had plans to announce him yesterday.
Cuisance arrived in Yorkshire on Wednesday and began his medical, only for scans to turn up an issue with one of his feet.
Leeds pulled the plug on the deal immediately despite already agreeing to pay Bayern around £20 million on Tuesday.
They performed further assessments and weighed up the risk, but decided it wasn’t worth taking after mulling the results over and taking advice from head of medicine Rob Price.