West Brom chairman Jeremy Peace has slammed Tottenham Hotspur for unsettling Saido Berahino this summer.
The saga involving the England Under-21 international continued to rumble on until the last minutes of the transfer window as Tottenham slapped in two more unsuccessful bids for the West Brom striker.
The Baggies remained firm on their commitment to keep hold of the player and rejected Tottenham’s overtures for Berahino.
However, the forward was left annoyed at the club’s refusal to sell him and vowed earlier today that he will play for West Brom again while Peace is chairman.
West Brom chairman Peace has hit back at Tottenham and said that despite their insistence that the forward is not for sale, Spurs kept on trying to unsettle the player.
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The West Brom supremo revealed that despite the player’s outburst, the club will try to mend bridges with him and try to repair a fractured relationship for the sake of the team.
In a statement released on the club’s official website, Peace said: “We have a key player who has been very unsettled by antics which were designed to get him out of our club cheaply.
"Those tactics have continued despite my making our position clear in my first conversation with Daniel Levy on this subject in mid-August.
“I said selling Saido so late in the window was not on our agenda.
“Tottenham’s offers failed substantially to reflect Saido’s true value while the timing made no allowance for our own recruitment of a suitable replacement for a proven Premier League goalscorer.
“Saido has been unsettled to the point where our Head Coach has not felt able to select him for our last three games.
“We are now left with the task of repairing the damage created by this unfortunate episode.”
