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title: "West Ham and Everton make approaches for Bacary Sagna"
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type: "post"
language: "en-GB"
author: "Ste Hoare"
section: "West Ham News"
published: "2017-02-09T19:24:14Z"
modified: "2017-02-09T21:11:48Z"
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# West Ham and Everton make approaches for Bacary Sagna

The contract of Manchester City defender Bacary Sagna expires at the end of the season and as such, he is free to explore other options and according to Le10 Sport, via [Sport Witness](https://sportwitness.co.uk/everton-west-ham-already-made-first-contact-man-city-defender-summer-transfer/), West Ham and Everton have both made initial approaches to his representatives.

Sagna, who turns 34 years old on Valentine’s Day, looks set for an exit from the Etihad Stadium and it appears that Slaven Bilic and Ronald Koeman could be interested in bringing him in on a short-term deal.

![Shaun Botterill/Getty Images Sport](https://media.readwestham.com/readwestham/2017/02/630796150.jpg)

Right back has been a problem position for West Ham all season and Sagna could be a good stopgap option for the Hammers whilst they either develop one of their younger players or look elsewhere for a long-term replacement.

Everton have Seamus Coleman as their obvious starter at right-back so Sagna would be more likely to play regular football at West Ham, although a move to Everton would allow him to continue to live in the North West if that is something which is important to him.