Without a club since July 2020, Bakary Sako is trying to get his career back on track.
The 19-timed capped Mali international spent a large chunk of his career in the Premier League, arriving in 2012 at Wolverhampton Wanderers from AS Saint-Etienne before being transferred to Crystal Palace on a free in 2015.
He stayed there until 2018, when West Brom picked him up before a return to the Eagles materialised in January 2019 for six months.
Once that ended, he went to Cyprus, where he featured for Pafos FC, playing his last game for them in November 2019 and never featuring again.
That’s over two years without playing professional football, and yet AS Saint-Etienne, now scrambling around for free reinforcements, could be ready to give him a new chance.
Foot Mercato in France are the ones reporting this, claiming the former Wolves and Crystal Palace winger is currently in Saint-Etienne, where the club are ‘thinking about offering him a short-term contract of six months’.
It would be a nice return to his ex-club, perhaps to show everyone he still has it, but it’s fair to say neither the Molineux or Selhurst Park sides would take this risk.
Let’s hope for the 33-year-old that it pays off.
