St Etienne Want Ex-African Champion Aboubakar but Wages Could Scupper the Deal

Cameroon’s Vincent Aboubakar could be heading back to France with St Etienne clamoring for his services.

The Indomitable Lion is in the books of Porto where he is now a surplus as the Portuguese giants target cashing in on him to the highest bidder.

An erstwhile Coton Sport attacker, the 27-year-old is down the pecking order of the former European Cup winners in a decline blamed hugely on niggling injuries.

The void his absence has created has been filled, meaning he will have to look elsewhere for consistent playing minutes.

St Etienne of the Ligue 1 are the latest side linked with interest in the African Cup of Nations medal winner but they will have to cough up at least €10m to trigger the forward’s release clause – a sum only PSG, Lyon and Marseille could match. St Etienne are out of this bracket.

However, reports suggest The Greens are eyeing buying Vincent with a figure lower than Porto’s price tag plus a player going to the opposite direction as lightweight to the deal.

This proposal looks tempting but St Etienne still have a snag to deal with, the striker’s lucrative wages which reports hint could scupper Aboubakar’s France return.

Shooting to fame as a teenager after impressing in the 2009 Africa U-17 tourney in Algeria, the winger moved to Valenciennes having come of age before moving to Lorient and then to Porto, Besiktas and back to Lisbon.