Blackburn Rovers may have struck transfer gold following rollercoaster saga: View
Duncan McGuire eventually got his move to Ewood Park
There weren’t many stories on deadline day more dramatic than that involving Blackburn Rovers and Duncan McGuire.
With the Ewood Park club in desperate need of attacking reinforcements before the window closed, McGuire had emerged as the man seemingly targeted to fill that role.
It was reported the day before deadline day, that McGuire was travelling to England to undergo a medical ahead of a move to Ewood Park.
However, in the hours leading up to the final day of the window, reports began to emerge that the Championship club had pulled out of a deal to sign the 22-year-old, causing the move to collapse, while McGuire was in the air on his flight to England.
Come the morning of deadline day, with fans of both clubs questioning just what had happened, it emerged that the deal appeared to have fallen through, after Adam Wharton’s own anticipated move from Blackburn to Crystal Palace – that had looked set to fund the McGuire deal – had come close to collapsing, leading to that knock-on effect of the same happening with McGuire.
That move to take the midfielder to Selhurst Park though, would eventually go through, opening the door for Blackburn to make signings on the final day of the window.
But even at that point, it was claimed that Blackburn were looking at alternative striker targets, while McGuire was instead in talks over a move to Sheffield Wednesday.
As deadline day went on though, things would swing again, with Blackburn re-entering the race for McGuire, and eventually, completing the signing of the striker from Orlando, in the very final hours of the window, albeit with seemingly different terms to the original deal.
McGuire joined Blackburn on loan with an option to buy
Initially, it looked as though Blackburn were set to complete the signing of the American attacker, on a permanent basis immediately.
Some reports had suggested that McGuire had been due to join the club for a fee of £2.3million, while signing a three-and-a-half-year contract at Ewood Park.
That though has now changed, with the 22-year-old instead joining Blackburn on a loan deal, that includes the option to buy at the end of this season.
