Baisama Sankoh with the SM Caen reserve time to find a club at the Mercato
a week, Since Baisama Sankoh has found the sports facilities of the Malherbe Caen Stadium and some familiar faces.
“There are a lot of new ones but there are faces that I know among young people. There is Evens (Joseph), Lamine (Sy). In pro, there is Jessy (Deminguet), Yoël (Armougom), Rémy (Riou) … I also played with Alex Mendy at Guingamp. There are familiar faces, appreciates Baisama.”
Free since last summer and a last experience in Cyprus, the defensive midfielder asked his former club in order to be able to train with the reserve, the time of the transfer window and to find a new project. He has accommodation in Caen during the week and returns to Paris on weekends.
“I with mandated agents. Afterwards, the CV does not work because there are many players who have bigger names than me and who are without a club. With the covid, it’s complicated. Many Les players are out of work. If there’s an opportunity, I’ll take it. It’s up to me to be ready in case something chooses to happen.
I don’t think I have 90 high level minutes in my legs but I think I can claim something. I’m not saying that I can play directly with Stade Malherbe (Laughs) but I’m still determined. I always want it so we must not let go of the steak.”
I’m still craving it so don’t let go of the steak.
It has been almost two years to the day (January 31, 2020) that he terminated his contract with SM Caen. “In the meantime, I went to Italy (Ascoli) where things went badly with little problems with the Coronavirus. I came back to Paris and two months after my contract was terminated in Italy, I signed in Cyprus (Nea Salamis Famagusta).
I was training with a small DH club (…). It allowed me to talk but it was not a professional setting
I returned to Paris. I was training with a small DH club, Saint Brice, right next to my house. I am from Sarcelles. It allowed me to talk but it was not a professional setting. We had three training sessions a week and that’s not really what I had experienced. I sent a message to Yohan Eudeline (the sports director of SM Caen) with whom I get along well and with whom I have always kept good relations. I asked him if I could come back to train and find a professional setting so that I might be able to claim something if I had touches. He told me there was no problem.”
Baisama Sankoh had started the 2019-2020 season by scoring four goals in the first twelve days under the coaching of Rui Almeida but after a last meeting against Paris FC (2-4), the defensive midfielder quickly found himself no longer play.
When (Pascal) Dupraz arrived, he put me in the cellar
“I was coming to the end of my contract in June 2021. I didn’t want to stay six months without playing. When (Pascal) Dupraz arrived, he put me in the cellar without necessarily having any reasons, but hey, after that it’s his problem. He removed me from the group. I understood that it was no longer playable for me. I preferred to terminate amicably. As I had maintained good relations with Yohan Eudeline, there was no didn’t have any problems. My regret is that, personally, I was having a great start to the season, but that’s how it is. That’s football. Maybe he had his heads, maybe the mine didn’t succeed. In any case, he put me on the side. So he didn’t have speeches consistent with what he claimed. It’s football. We have to move on and I’m move on.
There was complication after complication. We cannot predict that. If I had known, I would not have terminated at Stade Malherbe. I would have done my six months. I would have gritted my teeth but there was no telling what would happen. The Covid took everyone in the back.
Of his fifty-nine matches played at the SMC, it is those of the epic in the Coupe de France that will undoubtedly leave him his fondest memories in Rouge et Bleu.
We still talk to each other between former teammates with Brice Samba, Alex Djiku, Enzo Crivelli
“When we leave Lyon at home, it was really not bad. Humanly, I think I have found good people. I remember that too. We still talk to each other between former teammates with Brice Samba, Alex Djiku, Enzo Crivelli. We are still in contact every day. I found great people even in the Staff, with the stewards, the physiotherapists. Frankly, I always get on well with them. It’s cool.”