Stoke make fresh bid for Saido Berahino
The quicker the future of Saido Berahino is cleared up the better.
Over the last 18 months, the striker has been perennially linked with a move away from West Brom, with Tottenham, Crystal Palace and Stoke all having made bids in the region of £20m for the former England U21 international.
Now, with just six months to run on his contract, Stoke have reopened talks to sign the Burundi-born forward, according to The Telegraph.
Berahino hasn’t featured for the Baggies since September and jetted to France last month to undergo a fitness regime to improve his conditioning so he can come back into the first-team fold.
Tony Pulis has confirmed recently that a new contract is on the table for Saido, reportedly worth £60,000-a-week, their third offer with the most lucrative terms yet, but the 23-year-old has his heart set on leaving the club either this month or in the summer on a free transfer.
After leaving Berahino out of the squad for West Brom’s FA Cup third round tie with Derby, Pulis stated that everyone is for sale.
“Everybody is for sale. For every player the market is there. [Paul] Pogba wasn’t for sale then Manchester United made that unbelievable offer and he was sold,” he said.
“You can’t say anybody is not for sale because everybody is for sale at a price, it’s just whether those prices match what you want, whether the players want to play there and whether a club selling want to sell, so there are always ifs, buts and maybes with it.”
It’s unclear what it would take for West Brom to part ways with Saido this month, but it’ll likely be considerably less than the £20m that was touted in the summer.