Needing some offensive reinforcements in January, Nantes ended up scrambling around on transfer deadline day, eventually managing to sort out deals for Fiorentina’s Valentin Eysseric and Croatian striker Antonio Mance.
However, prior to getting those deals done, the Ligue 1 side turned their attention to the Premier League, trying to see if they could pull off some deals for wantaway players like Fulham’s Floyd Ayité, according to Ouest-France.
The winger, who is now 30, has barely featured for the Cottagers this season, totalling 339 minutes of football spread over 10 appearances, seven of which came in the league, and a January move to a club willing to play him would have been ideal.
Unfortunately, much like they did with Aboubakar Kamara, who ended up in Turkey, Nantes thought about him, but moved onto other, perhaps cheaper and more attainable targets, like Eysseric and Mance.
With his contract running out in June of this year, Ayité should be free to do what he wants come the end of the season, unless Fulham trigger the one year extension clause in his contract if they feel they can sell him for money in the summer.
