Forgotten Arsenal flop hints at return to English football after transfer collapsed as club ‘invented’ injury

Ex-Arsenal striker Yaya Sanogo has hinted helium could instrumentality to English shot - aft a spell successful the Chinese 2nd division.

The Frenchman, who won the FA Cup with the Gunners, has spent the play with Qingdao Red Lions.

Sanogo, 31, has besides played for Crystal Palace, Charlton and Huddersfield arsenic good arsenic Ajax and Auxerre.

The Paris-born subordinate launched a renewed onslaught connected Middlesbrough, insisting their false assertion helium had a enarthrosis injury hampered his bid to find a caller nine successful 2020.

Sanogo picked retired Arsenal's 3-2 FA Cup last triumph implicit Hull City arsenic the item of his career.

And the guardant said helium astir became a postman aft a superior limb wounded threatened to extremity his vocation aged conscionable 17.

Sanogo said: "I'm present retired of contract, and I americium unfastened to anything.  I've enjoyed being successful China, but let's spot what task I volition spell for.

"I person had a fig of telephone calls, and the omens are bully - particularly from clubs successful Europe.

"I anticipation to get fixed up soon.  I've not acceptable myself a definite people - I conscionable privation to bask myself and person fun.

"With each the struggles I person had successful my career, that is genuinely my purpose now.

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"I was owed to motion for Middlesbrough. I reached an statement with them, but during my aesculapian they invented a enarthrosis occupation that I'd ne'er had.

"After that, everyone asked maine if I was injured. They wrote successful the media that I had failed my medical, truthful clubs were ever a spot wary astir me."

Middlesbrough person been approached for comment.

Sanogo scored conscionable 1 extremity successful 20 Arsenal games, but is inactive remembered for being an interaction sub astatine Wembley successful 2014.

He told So Foot magazine: "My champion representation is the FA Cup final.  I was decisive erstwhile I came on, and the players sang my opus successful the dressing-room afterwards.

"We were losing, I came connected arsenic we went with 2 up front, and I made an impact.  I was young, and it is thing I volition ne'er forget.

"I returned to the Emirates Stadium for a crippled past year, and radical came up to convey maine for that final.

"I travel from Les Ulis successful Paris, the aforesaid arsenic Thierry Henry and Patrice Evra. It is an honour for america to spot however acold we person travel successful our careers.

"I present privation to walk connected the payment of my acquisition to the squad I play for.

"I had a spot of an iffy spell during the 2 years aft I had a superior shin injury. The surgeon told maine it would beryllium virtually intolerable for maine to resume my playing career.

"I asked myself what I could bash instead. I was conscionable 17, and successful the depths of despair.

"It crossed my caput to go a postman. But determination was a 5 per cent accidental I could play again, and adjacent though it was minimal it was inactive a accidental for me.

"I had to hold for 2 years - but I made my instrumentality to football."