Orlando Pirates eyeing Asante Kotoko striker Songne Yacouba as Buccaneers preparing to reach agreement with striker
Orlando Pirates are keeping their tabs on Asante Kotoko forward Songne Yacouba as Futball Surgery now understand.
Despite football activities suspended in South Africa, one of the country’s giants Orlando Pirates are already planning their transfer activities before the transfer finally opens.
They are understood to watching a couple of players in and out the ABSA Premiership where Maritzburg United duo Rushine De Reuck and Siyanda Xulu have attracted interest from the Soweto giants.
And Asante Kotoko forward Songne Yacouba is monitored from outside the country. Pirates have been linked with the Burkina Faso International for two seasons now having failed to buy the forward out of contract in 2019.
Yacouba, 28, is having problems with his employers at the Baba Yara Stadium over contract extension, where many attempts to reach a new with the Ghanaian giants haven’t materialized. That will see the former Stade Malien striker leave Asante Kotoko as a free agent when his contract expires in a month time.
That’s where Pirates are waiting to reach agreement with the Burkina Faso striker. Pirates are monitoring the player’s situation and if things remain unchanged as it stands now by not signing a new deal at the Garden City, Pirates would enter into agreement to sign Yacouba.
Yacouba has already prepared his departure from the Ghana Premier League after his agent Ahmed Nuno revealed talks between his client and South African club Golden Arrows and Azam FC and Simba Football Club have already began.
This would be a sort of competition for Pirates though, Buccaneers who are preparing for a very good campaign in Africa next season however will weight things to agree a deal with Yacouba in order to snatch the 28-year-old from its competitors.
