Alexandre Mendy’s delayed move to Sunderland is causing unhappiness for everyone, with the whole affair labelled as ‘unpleasant’.
Actu.fr cover the situation today and comments from SM Caen defender Romain Thomas on the matter.
Mendy wants to leave the French side this summer and has an agreement in place with Sunderland to move to the Championship.
They’ve been working on a potential deal for weeks but have so far not got anywhere near to what the French side would be looking for.
Actu.fr report that their current offer is ‘out of all proportion’, with Sunderland so far only putting less than €1m down for the top goalscorer in Ligue 2. Caen aren’t interested at that price, particularly as they don’t have a replacement.
Mendy has been working away from his teammates this summer while the saga rumbles on but was ordered to rejoin the group at the start of the week. He subsequently appeared in training on Tuesday.
Caen and their new owners, the Mbappe family, would like to keep him at the club and have made that clear to the player.
That’s left them, Sunderland and the player stuck, a situation that’s proving to be uncomfortable for everyone involved.
“When the guy scores sixty goals in three years, you don’t have to have studied at Saint-Cyr to understand that you need him,” said Thomas.
“For a transfer to be made, everything must be there, and everyone must be happy. There is a part that is not happy.”
“It is an unpleasant situation for everyone: for the player, for the club, for the new shareholders, for the coach that I am. For the moment, everyone is a loser in this story,” added manager Nicolas Seube.
