Asamoah Gyan Hands In Transfer Request to Sunderland?
Reports say Turkish sides Galatasaray and Trabzonspor are interested in the striker and can offer him a better wage structure.
Update:Metro newspaper claims it's all about money with Gyan's reps thinking the player is deserving of a better salary on the backs of interest from Turkish sides Galatasaray and Trabzonspor but chairman Niall Quinn won't give him the dough because he is only 1 year into a long term contract. Oh dear, Steve Bruce. Things have just gone from bad to extremely worse for the Sunderland boss. On the day he is desperately trying to secure the services of a new striker with Peter Crouch mulling over a £10 million to the North East, ironically the same city that his now wife Abi Clancy couldn't be convinced to upsticks to a few years ago, Bruce has just heard the one thing he didn't want to hear today. BBC Sports reporter Leon Mann has just tweeted from his 'sources' that Sunderland forward Asamoah Gyan has just handed in a transfer request at the Stadium of Light on Transfer Deadline Day! Gyan has started the season terribly in a misfiring team with the Sunderland fans getting on his back in games against Newcastle and Swansea when Gyan couldn't seem to hit the target despite finding himself in good positions. From the outside looking in, Gyan certainly hasn't looked right on the pitch for a while now and seems to be troubled and now perhaps the frustrations of the fans turning on him, and with the poor run of form his club have been under in 2011, and the pressures of being the club's only talisman and maybe what he thinks is a lack of ambition in the club in the wake of Darren Bent's transfer to Aston Villa in January, perhaps he has had enough. 25 year old Gyan cost Sunderland their club record of £13 million when he came from French club Rennes exactly a year ago on transfer deadline day. Could a deal be done before the end of the transfer window? Have the rest of the Premier League now been alerted to his availability? Could a swap deal involving Peter Crouch and Tottenham be in the offing which would alleviate the anger somewhat of the Sunderland fans? More on this when we get it.