Bacary Sagna

Bacary Sagna - Classy Footballer

Frenchman Bacary Sagna enjoyed a good club career, which started at French team Auxerre in his teen years. The Ex-French international teamed up with Auxerre at the age of 15 and went on to make his debut as a professional at the club. He was at Auxerre when Arsene Wenger signed him in 2007 for a fee said to be around £7m. In the end, the transfer fee paid for him turned out to be a good one after the player spent seven successful years at the Emirates Stadium.

Bacary Sagna spent the biggest part of his career at Arsenal and till date, he's regarded as one of the best Arsenal right-backs of the Premier League era. He won the 2013/14 FA Cup title with the Gunners as the team ended a run of nine years without a trophy to by beating Hull City 3-2 in the final at the Wembley Stadium.

Contrary to widespread belief that Frenchman Bacary Sagna dumped Arsenal for the riches at Premier League rivals Manchester City, the defender left the Gunners because of a different reason. Sagna has managed to clear the air almost a decade later.

The ex-Auxerre right-back disclosed what led to his Arsenal exit during one of his recent interviews with popular media portal Goal. He told their Arsenal correspondent, Charles Watts that the sale of two key players played a major role in his eventual exit from North London. Arsenal sold two important players in Robin Van Persie and Alexandre Song in the summer of 2012. According to Sagna, he didn't recover from the decision to sell both Van Persie and Song in the same summer till he left the club for Manchester City on a free transfer two years later.

The best right-back of the English Premier League Bacary Sagna has talked about the decision of leaving Arsenal 6 years after he executed the plan in 2014. He said that he was feeling insecure as the club was making a delay to talk to him about the extension of his contract. Being one of the best defenders of the English Premier League, Sagna performed most consistently during the 2013-14 session. As Sagna played for the club for 7 years, he appeared 284 times for Arsenal from 2007 to 2014.

Then he left the club in 2014 and joined Manchester City. There he played till 2017 and made 54 appearances for the club. The French Footballer also played for his country in two World Cup tournaments as well as UEFA European Championship. Arsenal decided to sell the Netherlands footballer Robin Van Persie as Manchester United wanted him. On the other hand, the selling of Alex Song to Barcelona also put a great impact on the decision of leaving the club by Sagna. According to Sagna, he was clueless about why the club let these two gems leave the club as they were playing very well

Former England player Wayne Rooney believes that Manchester City will beat Real Madrid in the second leg of Champions League. City won the first leg for 2-1 and Real will be visiting in the second leg of the match. With the goals from Kevin De Bruyne and Gabriel Jesus,City was able to secure the lead. But things have varied now with Zinedine Zidane has led up Real to winning the La Liga titlefrom Barcelona and they are looking forward to securing the Champions League title too. They won ten successive matches to secure their 34th La Liga title.

Pep Guardiola in the post-match conference against Liverpool has said that Kevin De Bruyne is the best midfielder in the world. Manchester City thrashed Liverpool in their first match after becoming champions with the score of 4–0. De Bruyne was the one to open the scoring when Joe Gomez fouled Raheem Sterling which resulted in the penalty.

Former Premier League star Darren Bent believes Paul Pogba will be eager to prove himself when he returns to action later this month. The France international has missed most of the current campaign for Manchester United with a nagging ankle injury and he underwent an operation for the same at the beginning of the year.

David Silva has confirmed that he will be leaving Manchester City in this year. His contract will be expiring on June and he iswillingto extend the contract for a short time if the Premier League or Champions League is to be resumed. He hasn’t yet decided in his future plans and where he should be going next. Even though there are speculationsthat he will be either joining the football in Japan or Major League Soccer. With the advent of coronavirus, his future has stepped into uncertainties.

Former Arsenal star Bacary Sagna has advised the Gunners to keep hold of Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang at all costs. The Gabon international has been the club’s leading performer over the past couple of years and he has netted 61 goals from nearly 100 appearances across all competitions.

AS Monaco forward Wissam Ben Yedder has confirmed that Barcelona have expressed an interest in signing him in the past two transfer windows. The Frenchman made the move to Monaco from Sevilla at the beginning of the season and he has since impressed for the Principality outfit with 18 goals and four assists in Ligue 1.

The representative of Paul Pogba has hinted that the midfielder could seek an exit from Manchester United amid their inability to compete for the Premier League and Champions League titles. The Red Devils have struggled to win regular silverware since the Sir Alex Ferguson era and they are currently on a trophy drought which has extended to two-and-a-half years.