Sakho and Slav set for Round Two!
The unhappy Senegal striker is feeling unwanted and second best after battling back to full fitness but being overlooked apart from a cameo performance against Arsenal.
He was called into the action late and left to chase a lost cause at the Emirates with Arsenal well on top before becoming an unused sub against Swansea and then learning he wouldn’t be starting yesterday at Sunderland.
We understand there has been little communication from the manager and is keen to feel part of his plans. He believed Sunderland was a perfect game for his starting comeback.
He feels he needs more acknowledgement from Bilic after putting in hours of extra training in order to ensure that he returned before the end of the season in what looked like at one time as if it would develop into a relegation dogfight.
His big mistake of course is playing the Diafra ‘Sulk’ role and has nothing to gain as no club will move for him this summer given his shortage of games.
Slav himself has to take some responsibility for the situation given he indicated he “had to start somewhere with Diafra,” before putting him on the back bench again!
However, we were told this afternoon conciliation may well be on the way and it would be no surprise to see the striker playing a part against Everton.
Given Sakho’s well known personality ClaretandHugh – as an unashamed huge fan of the player – hopes that mature heads can prevail and that an arm is shoved around his shoulder and he is helped to feel the love.
And no …fans or otherwise we are not excusing his behaviour.