I imagine there'd be nothing to gain by buying him before January. If we buy him early, then he gets a serious injury, we've wasted our money. So if all is good, it stands to reason we'll buy him in January.
Because he's still got an injury. A fee was agreed, but when he failed the medical we couldn't risk the price tag, so we've got a deal where if his injury doesn't look like a problem when January comes, we pay the money and keep him. If the injury is a problem, we don't (or at least we...