During the transfer window, talks don’t always go well, and that appears to be exactly what has happened regarding the potential transfer of Bacary Sagna to Marseille this summer.
The soon to be ex-Manchester City defender is available on a free at the end of the month, and has been linked with a return to France.
Reports that talks had already taken place were all over the place, but one problem always kept coming back, and that was his wages.
Well, according to La Provence on Thursday, the difference between what the Manchester City defender wants and what Marseille are prepared to offer is so big that the whole deal has gone cold.
Earlier this week, France Football explained there was a 60% chance that Sagna would end up returning to Ligue 1, especially because his wife wasn’t against living in France again, but that appears to have halved, if not more, since then.
The same applies for Barcelona’s Jeremy Mathieu, and two players who seemed to be priorities at Marseille have now fallen down the pecking order.
With West Ham having signed his former teammate at the Etihad, Pablo Zabaleta, it’s going to be interesting to see how many clubs in the Premier League are keen to take on a 34-year-old full-back who’s asking for a lot of wages.
Our bet is very few.
