Ricardo Santos

[Snowflake Royal]

Small point but I remember listening to a podcast with the Arsenal physio and he said nobody fails a medical as that isn't want the process is about - he is simply an input into the risk analysis that forms part of any signing. As we were due to pay a fee for Santos, then the medical must have shown something that we decided was too much of a risk for the fee/wages/contract length we were about to enter into and either we or Santos/Swansea were not prepared to renegotiate.

Doesn't sound right - it allows you to assess their real level fitness (getting them to run and checking VO2 max rate) and also levels of recovery from an injury. As anyone who has had any knee injury will know you can be 'recovered' but there can be reduced flexibility etc.

The other player I can recall failing our medical was Bradley Wright-Phillips, who then went elsewhere and scored loads of goals.

Nothing is ever guaranteed

[LightwaterRoyal]

Small point but I remember listening to a podcast with the Arsenal physio and he said nobody fails a medical as that isn't want the process is about - he is simply an input into the risk analysis that forms part of any signing. As we were due to pay a fee for Santos, then the medical must have shown something that we decided was too much of a risk for the fee/wages/contract length we were about to enter into and either we or Santos/Swansea were not prepared to renegotiate.

Doesn't sound right - it allows you to assess their real level fitness (getting them to run and checking VO2 max rate) and also levels of recovery from an injury. As anyone who has had any knee injury will know you can be 'recovered' but there can be reduced flexibility etc.

The other player I can recall failing our medical was Bradley Wright-Phillips, who then went elsewhere and scored loads of goals.

Didn't we try to bring in Asamoah Gyan under Jaap Stam but he also failed the medical? He's scored a goal every 1.9 games in his career