'About my transfer to Crystal Palace, I can say that I'm very happy the move failed.'
Sometimes, with hindsight, it's probably best to just say nothing at all. Cenk Tosun has some making up to do should his loan move to Selhurst Park go through.
Two years ago, Tosun was the man with the world at his feet. After banging them in for Besiktas in his homeland, he commanded a £27million fee in a move to Everton.
Plenty of clubs were in for him - Palace included - but he plumped for Goodison Park in January of last year, with the club eyeing European football in the months ahead.
The 12 months since have been topsy-turvy, and now Tosun is leaving Merseyside with his tail between his legs, a shadow of his former self but still with three-and-a-half years left on his £110,000-a-week wage.
So where did it all go so wrong for the 28-year-old in that year at Goodison? Why didn't he shine in England and how has he ended up at Palace, just 14 months after slating them in the press?
First, let's take you back to pre-Premier League. Tosun came through Eintracht Frankfurt's academy, making one Bundesliga appearance for the club before heading to Turkey.
Gaziantepspor were the first stop, for a €400,000 fee. At just 17, he was banging in the goals, 10 in his first 14 games making him well worth the money.
He helped the team win a cup final, and they helped give him a leg-up to the Turkish national side. Despite being born and raised in Germany, and coming through their international youth sides, he plumped for Turkey on the senior stage.
Now a household name, Besiktas came calling in 2014, and he signed a five-year deal with one of the country's very top clubs. The likes of Demba Ba and Mario Gomez kept him out of the side initially, but he came to the fore in 2016-17, scoring 24 goals as the side won the Super Lig.
It was at that point that Palace locked eyes on him. Everton, too, were aware, but the Eagles were front-runners and put in multiple bids to get their man. He turned down a deal and opted to hold out for a bigger club.
And then, in November of 2017, came that fateful comment. He was 'very happy' to have avoided south London, after Besiktas turned down a £12.5m summer deadline day bid from Palace.
He was delighted because he 'got to stay at the club'... but just two months later, Everton came calling and off he went. It was January 5, 2018, and Everton shelled out a massive £27m to bring him to the Premier League.
In truth, it looked a struggle from the word go. He was brought in by Sam Allardyce, but immediately was in and out of the team, never a bonafide member of the starting XI.
His debut came against Tottenham on January 13, and he then started again against West Brom the week after, but from there he was relegated to a spot on the bench, with the oft-maligned Oumar Niasse taking his place.
It took until March for him to net his first goal, in a 2-1 defeat by Burnley, but then briefly the heavens opened. He got another against Brighton a week later, and then a brace at Stoke to win the game. Four in three, a wonderful return for the investment.
In reality, though, he was playing in a poor team under Allardyce, and was the focal point up top in a side that just pumped the ball long to him. He should have been scoring more, and firing Everton up the table.
In the following season, with Marco Silva now in charge, he started as first-choice striker and looked to have improved his overall performance, but was still struggling for goals.
Perhaps surprisingly, he only played 60 minutes more football than the previous season, despite him arriving midway through it. Although he was starting games, he was coming off early, and the goals weren't flowing.
He netted against Fulham in September, Palace (ahem) in October, and Millwall in the FA Cup in January, but then had to wait until Tottenham in May for his fourth and final goal of the campaign. For £27m, just a handful of goals a season is not good enough.
Silva chopped and changed his team as he desperately fought for his own job, trying to find the winning combination in yet another disappointing season for the Toffees.
As it got to the summer, more rumours were abound about his future, but Tosun insisted he wanted to stay and fight for his place in the Toffees team.
This season, he played under his third Everton manager. Duncan Ferguson took interim charge after Silva's sacking, and although he got some decent results Tosun was far from at the front of his mind.
In fact, he made headlines against Arsenal by bringing the Turkish international on... and then bringing him off again later in the game.
Tosun stormed down the tunnel, without a word to his boss, and hasn't pulled on an Everton shirt since.
The arrival of Carlo Ancelotti in the dugout has done him no favours; Tosun has occupied a place on the bench but hasn't once got off it in the Italian's four games in charge.
And so, to Palace? The Eagles are close to securing a six-month loan deal for the striker, but even their fans aren't sure.
A quick look on Twitter brings up a few results, and the sentiment is clear.
'Anyone but Tosun', says the first. 'Nobody wants Tosun', is another. 'A big no from me', says a third.
Palace fans are worried he is a short-term fix to their long-term problem in the strike department. They have had a bevy of average strikers through the door at Selhurst, only to see them shipped off a few months later, never to be seen again.
But Tosun, at least, arrives with a big point to prove. He is not on even ground with the Palace fans, already starting on the back foot given his previous comments.
If ever a striker needed goals, this is it. He is on a big wage, and will be taking up a loan spot in the Palace squad that most fans wanted saved for Michy Batshuayi.
His career is at its make-or-break stage. Besiktas and Fenerbahce are both keen, but the Turkish league is a whole different prospect. A sign of almost giving up on his dream of making it in the Premier League.
It will be interesting to see now, with just under half the season to go, if Tosun can turn his career around.
Come May, he'll either head back to Goodison with a hatful of goals, demanding his place in Ancelotti's team... or it's a one-way flight to Turkey. Only time will tell.