Mostafa Mohamed here lifts the African Supercup, won in February 2020 in Doha, with his Egyptian club Zamalek.

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  • For the past month, ASSE has targeted the Egyptian international Mostafa Mohamed (23) as an offensive priority for this winter transfer window.

  • Unfortunately for the Greens, the Zamalek club formalized Thursday evening the departure of its striker on loan from Galatasaray.

  • There are only four days left in Sainté to complete a reinforcement at the center-forward position, while central defender Pape Cissé (Olympiakos) must sign up on loan this Friday.

The hiccups of transfer window accumulate for the Greens.

After the William Saliba and M'Baye Niang files, missed by nothing during the summer session, ASSE has just experienced a painful outcome Thursday evening concerning Mostafa Mohamed.

After a month of sometimes tense negotiations, like Roland Romeyer's lunar pressure surge on January 14 on Egyptian television, the Saint-Etienne club had to give up its priority in the offensive sector.

Determined to leave Zamalek, the 23-year-old center-forward (4 selections with the Pharaohs), won his case and took the plane Thursday… towards Istanbul.

Zamalek has officially announced that it has accepted Galatasaray's offer, namely an 18-month paid loan (for 1.6 million euros), plus a purchase option of 3.3 million euros.

Even Stéphane's final proposal for a dry transfer of € 4.1 million, immediately paid for in full, did not obtain the support of the Egyptian leaders.

Pape Cissé played in the Champions League with Olympiakos

Without real number 9 in the workforce except Charles Abi (20 years old, 2 goals in 34 appearances), after this failure following that of M'Baye Niang three and a half months earlier, Claude Puel and the director of recruitment Jean- Luc Buisine have four days to finalize another solution.

According to several media, ASSE is looking at the Canadian striker of Besiktas Cyle Larin (25), author of 12 goals and 3 assists in the Turkish league this season.

In the meantime, Senegalese central defender Pape Cissé (25) landed Thursday at the training center of L'Etrat (Loire).

Olympiakos defender Pape Cissé, who notably faced OM this season in the Champions League, is about to sign up on loan at Saint-Etienne.

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Under contract with Olympiakos, the imposing 1.97 m player should officially commit in the next few hours on loan until June.

He has played in the Champions League this season, notably ahead of OM for third qualifying place in the Europa League.

In view of the amount of his purchase option, estimated between 10 and 13 million euros, we can imagine that the former defender of AC Ajaccio (L2) comes mainly for a rescue mission in L1, a few days after the

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