Newcastle are being linked with Wolverhampton Wanderers winger Bakary Sako, whose contract at Molineux runs out at the end of the season, and he will become a free agent at the end of June.
26 year-old Bakary Sako – free agent in summer
The 14 times capped Mali International is in big demand with Aston Villa, West Brom, Sunderland and Stoke City said to be the other Premier League clubs interested in signing him.
Wolves are still hoping they can sign the 26 year-old to sign an extended contract to stay at the club, but they will need to win promotion to the Premier League via the play-offs if the Championship club are to hold onto their star winger.
Wolves are currently in 8th place in the Championship and 3 points out of a play-off place.
Sako stands six foot tall and joined Wolves in the summer of 2012 from St. Etienne in France, after he had played 10 times for the France U21 side, and Newcastle were reportedly interested in singing Sako in the summer of 2013.
Paris-born Sako is a goal-scoring winger and has scored 14 goals in 39 total appearances for Wolves this season, and in total he has appeared 122 times for Wolves with 37 goals and 33 assists over almost three seasons.
What do you think?
Comments welcome.
51 comments so far
sing in the corner
Apr 21, 2015 at 8:06 AM
Comment #41Lil
I can see what you’re saying and I hope you’re right. The only problem is we have some players going backwards fast in terms of confidence and we look in dissarray in our open play during games. I have been shocked at the demise / form crash of Ryan Taylor and Sammi (when he has been on the park). It’s catching. Gouffran’s selection astounds me but it doesn’t help that the cracks are widening with Carver. He’s rumoured to be falling out with people and its not as if we’ve got room to drop fit players too regularly. Carver looks to me that he’s going to implode and lose his temper. In his interviews he looked on the edge to me.
Lilongwe Geordie
Apr 21, 2015 at 8:07 AM
Comment #42Runaway,
You are getting to involved in the finances. The ticket revenue is chicken feed to Ashley. Any boycott should be about making the statement, the protests should be varied, in ground and out of ground.
If you try to damage him financially, you will be fighting till you are very long in the tooth. After next season, he will be making c. £30-40million extra in TV revenue, which more than covers the match day revenues.
Lilongwe Geordie
Apr 21, 2015 at 8:11 AM
Comment #43SITC,
Are the cracks widening? He has more selections issues than Pardew had this time last year, and results aren’t too dissimilar. The only real difference is we haven’t lost by 3 and 4 goals on a regular basis as we did last season.
Raylor was never going to come back the same player, and Sammi has always been incredibly hit and miss. Take Cisse away from Pardew (he has only started 3 games under Carver) and we would have picked up far fewer points.
Even if we don’t get a point, I’m not overly concerned about relegation, but I do think we will get them. I’d like to see, if De Jong is fit enough, him playing behind 2 centre forwards on Saturday. Colback and Abeid behind him. Janmaat providing width on the right and Perez/Rivi/Arma drifting to the left to offer an outlet on that side when required.
Anyway, got to go now, will catch up later.
tequilamag
Apr 21, 2015 at 8:11 AM
Comment #44Lilo
I always thought our last 5 games should be winnable . The momentum is the other way at the moment. Colback is our best scorer from midfield which makes claim that Sissoko is a top 6 quality player laughable. Quite correct we need a better gameplan but ought to be able to get something from the game It would help if a few more players broke into a sweat at some point.
sing in the corner
Apr 21, 2015 at 8:11 AM
Comment #45I hope the fans who are deliberating about going to the Swans game don’t get swayed by the rhetoric / spin about 52000 geordies needed to roar on the team etc etc. There’s no roaring there, I can’t see that suddenlt returning and people sitting quietly witnessing a charade of football isn’t going to help anyone but Mike Ashley’s status quo
mindshaft
Apr 21, 2015 at 8:12 AM
Comment #46To those thinking they can get a refund on already bought 2015/16 season tickets I’m afraid your highly deluded
That would mean any fan that wanted better football could sue – Liverpool fans probably expected a lot more this season after promises of ECL and Premiership title
We were promised no cup run and mid table so where’s the bad faith ?
Charlie in the Gallowgate
Apr 21, 2015 at 8:14 AM
Comment #47Toon’s sponsor
Wonga
Just reported a annual loss of 37 million for the last year
hibbit
Apr 21, 2015 at 8:16 AM
Comment #48lilo what’s getting to me about ed is he is out of touch with what’s happening on tyneside at one time ed would do his home work and give a very balanced opinion but not any more i am not even sure he watched the game to say there were 47000 in the ground a blind man on a galloping horse could see there was not………. he is the editor of this blog as such he should give thought to what he says
Charlie in the Gallowgate
Apr 21, 2015 at 8:19 AM
Comment #49My thoughts for the Swansea game is lets have a full house and get behind the team – make some noise like what the Liecester fans are doing at the minute and help to get the three points that will make us safe.
As for Ed this blog is for news on the TOON and for people of both sides of the Ashley debate to give their views. Sad day if Ed takes sides.
RUNAWAY777
Apr 21, 2015 at 8:23 AM
Comment #50charlie, how many times this season have the fans been behind the team and what has happened answer nowt so dont pull that one.
BandB
Apr 21, 2015 at 8:37 AM
Comment #51Lil..@28
You ask the question…..
“Is this really a good financial model?
It is always assumed and stated that it is, because, it is said, “we are the balance book champions.”
The question is one I hope to see taken up by others now. Who is it a good financial model for? Mash Holdings? Sports Direct? The football club known as Newcastle United?
The latter appears further than ever from “wiping its own nose.”
The quality of the product has been reduced to a bargain bin standard, and revenue streams have been lost or structured to benefit SD.
We stay afloat on a whopping subsidy from TV rights, while looking less and less like the sort of team that deserves it, and the assumption, yet to be proved, that our ultimate survival would be under-written from Ashley’s pocket.
The debt, as you say, has grown, despite the austerity measures.
What are these record profits for? They don’t appear to serve the playing side. So what and who does the model serve?