Sanogo Won’t Join Bordeaux: Tension Between Wenger and Triaud to Blame?
Yaya Sanogo will not be joining Bordeaux this winter. While the Girondins were hoping to secure the Arsenal striker on loan, Arsène Wenger has decided that the French forward will instead remain in England, with a Premier League club as his next destination.
According to a journalist from L’Équipe, the real reason behind Bordeaux’s failure to land Sanogo might not be sporting at all. The reported source claims:
“His manager doesn’t prefer England, he just has a problem with your chairman.”
That manager, of course, is Wenger, and the chairman in question is Jean-Louis Triaud. The two reportedly have strained relations, dating back to Sylvain Wiltord’s transfer to Arsenal in 2000, a high-profile and controversial move at the time. Tensions were further inflamed in 2010 when Marouane Chamakh left Bordeaux for Arsenal on a free transfer.
As a result of this long-standing grudge, Arsenal is said to have refused to loan Sanogo to Bordeaux, forcing the French club to look elsewhere in their search for a striker.
