The club can't make it happen. If I remember rightly Woy was trying quite hard to get rid of him but Lucas rejected any move away from the club.
Was just scrolling through the page and saw this, and I may be wrong here, but hodgson wanted to get rid and then saw Lucas in training. He subsequently gave an interview where he said (paraphrasing) "sometimes you hear a lot about a player, but then when you see them yourself you realise they are a lot better than people say", and promptly took down the big "for sale" sign that purslow had been traveling around Europe with. In other words, it appears that hodgson saw him, immediately realised the lad can play and told purslow to F**k off because he was staying.
This is completely from memory so I could be wrong, especially as hodgson initially preferred Poulsen despite his pre-season comments.
Then again, when did hodgson ever make any sense?
Anyway, sorry to dredge up an old post, but it caught my eye and the memory jumped into me brain
Keep him, get firmino in, and play them with Coutinho.
Fluidity, control, pace, vision and goals.
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