Bordeaux’s president Stephane Martin is hoping to tie up a deal for Diafra Sakho before next week’s transfer deadline.
Sakho’s future has been one of the most widely discussed issues at the club this January with Crystal Palace, Nice and Marseille, being linked.
The 28 year old is a friend of new coach Gus Poyet’s son Diego and some reports claim he is hoping that may influence the former Sunderland and Brighton coach to make the move for him!
The French outfit have admitted there is already an interest but that they would prefer to take him on loan.
Martin said: “There are several players that are of interest to us. We would prefer a loan. That would allow us time to re-position ourselves in the summer window.
“Diafra Sakho is one of the players that we are after. We are hoping to conclude something.”
The Hammers however, claim that there has been no move for the striker with a source telling ClaretandHugh: “We hear the various statements and rumours but there so nothing concrete to report at this stage.”
That would be brilliant even by our standards, if we sell the bloke at a point when we appear to have no strikers! Then again, like half the squad, he is still on the sick list so I suppose it makes no difference. Is anybody really gong to pay money for him when he has only played a couple of times in the last year & then has immediately got injured again.
Another nothing story if they only want a load deal there is no way he will be allowed to go we need the money to buy another striker
he isn’t injured right now. he is however, unavailable during the period which happens to coincide with the transfer window. get rid.
West Ham are obviously not interested in keeping him ;; so let him go . No player is bigger than the Club . Same goes for Hernandez the great pretender . Big money merchants that can’t perform according to the wage bill .
Time to let the academy take over ., before we lose that latent talent as well . We will survive this season with or without those losers that demand huge wages for doing effing nothing . I say let Moyes decide on who stays or leaves and the transfer signings should be down to him as the final decision . He is doing a good job right now so let him carry on with it . All the more reason to scrap the January window . It only creates bedlam . Every club should get on with what they’ve got ; end of . It’s stupid in my opinion that any club can be a different opponent mid season . It makes no sense to me .
same should be said of carroll right kev?
Its actually all very embarrassing on the buying and selling front.Grubbing around for loan players who could be gone come the Summer instead of buying long term quality players.Cannot afford to get rid of anybody as the squad is threadbare on top of which our 2 most creative players are out injured when we have on paper our most winnable games and premiership safety almost guaranteed.Where the F… has the money gone since we moved?
+1 that’s why we should be moving for young talent like James Maddison & Dendoncker or Ruiz even if takes £35-40m to get them in we have seen we aren’t getting any PL players Rafa wont sell Shelvey to us or rival might could use Sakho to go the other way but still. We could get 2-3 young players who could gel in & be part of present & future & will have resale value.
Tbh we can’t afford to sell Sakho & Chic unless we have backup CF. & Keb think lil Harsh on Chic has scored 5 goals with limited game time & not in best position 2nd highest behind Arnie in PL but if don’t use him Right nor his fault Bilic bought w no idea how to use & Moyes & him don’t seem to get on.
Then the fact have no creators without Lanzini nor Arnie so makes creating for CFs a lot harder.
We over sold on summer went for PL experience worked w 2 players & Chic some but PL experience doesn’t mean anything has to be the right fit.
And we should of planned for this we knew we had smallest squad in PL at 21 & highly injury prone been saying for weeks if Arnie Lanzini & Noble get injured then what. Now how those Fwds we had are gone.
We could of had deals lined up for begin of January I like Moyes hands in approach he wants to watch live but don’t have time have to trust Henry & he should worked together for long time.
And were are only 6pta of bottom. Not sold on Mario if even happens & Shelvey won’t happen.
Have to hope they realise if don’t spend could go down & get 2 permanent buys & 2 loans.
I’d take Ulloa or Musa on loan if Leicester would loan them to us.
But something needs to happen if Noble goes down too we basically just have a defense
I am worried about this Joao Mario deal too and for some reason its giving out bad vibes.What has he got that Feghouli was lacking?.Should have kept him and given him a proper chance to make a claim.I am with you JRS.Dendocker and Ruiz would be superb aquisitions for years to come but can we honestly see the owners coughing up some serious money.Its too risky to sell to get money in because as mentioned we do not have replacements lined up.Classic catch 22 scenario.
If the right offer comes in sell Sakho, he doesn’t want to play for us, which is a kick on the teeth to those including myself that backed him, he is bad for team morale, Dendoncker isn’t coming it seems, Jaoa Mario a maybe, Ruiz looks good on youtube but there is not an indiction that Moyes rates him, if Schurrle is available he would be a decent shout uptop to take Sakho’s place, Dzeko is also being bandied about, again a good shout for experienced prem performers, as for Ulloa steady player with a physical presence, Musa looks way out of his depth in PL, the better option is Slimani or Okazaki.
It is reported we have turned down offers for Sakho and if we continue to do so he will stay until the end of the season and then leave for nothing.Take what we can and be delighted with it rather than have a guy who is injured more often that not and clearly has no commitment to the club (irrespective of whether that is down to him or to S and G).
The same goes for Carroll – get what we can and move on.
In the meantime hands in pockets time after a net spend of £18m last summer. A failure to invest in a right winger and a ball winning midfielder is coming home to roost. Now with our two most creative players injured we are in the mire.