{"id":54511,"date":"2026-07-21T12:33:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T12:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/54511\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T12:33:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T12:33:16","slug":"big-spending-paris-fc-adds-mali-forward-lassine-sinayoko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/54511\/","title":{"rendered":"Big-spending Paris FC adds Mali forward Lassine Sinayoko"},"content":{"rendered":"

PARIS (AP) \u2014 Paris FC signed Mali forward Lassine Sinayoko on Tuesday, taking offseason transfer spending for the club majority-owned by France\u2019s richest family<\/a> above 65 million euros ($74 million).<\/p>\n

Paris is the biggest spender in Ligue 1 this offseason building for a second year back in the top-tier bankrolled by the LVMH-owning Arnault family. Paris beat cross-street rival Paris Saint-Germain in the league and cup last season.<\/a><\/p>\n

Paris said<\/a> the 26-year-old Sinayoko signed a three-year contract, without disclosing the transfer fee paid to Auxerre, where he scored 12 league goals last season.<\/p>\n

The price was reportedly 8 million euros ($9.1 million) and follows higher-priced deals for teenage midfielder Patrick Zabi from Stade Reims, Italy defender Diego Coppola from Brighton<\/a> and winger Pablo Pagis from Lorient.<\/p>\n

Paris placed 11th in its Ligue 1 return and is now coached by Liam Rosenior,<\/a> who briefly led Chelsea<\/a> last season after starting with its French sister club Strasbourg.<\/p>\n

Sinayoko has played 30 games for Mali, scoring 10 goals including three at each of the past two editions of the Africa Cup of Nations. Mali reached the quarterfinals<\/a> each time.<\/p>\n

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AP soccer: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/soccer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PARIS (AP) \u2014 Paris FC signed Mali forward Lassine Sinayoko on Tuesday, taking offseason transfer spending for the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54512,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[3900,5,10002,3523,725,7844,34882,30,3892,3748,34881,11893,193,7],"class_list":["post-54511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-paris","tag-diego-coppola","tag-france","tag-lassine-sinayoko","tag-liam-rosenior","tag-ligue-1","tag-mali","tag-pablo-pagis","tag-paris","tag-paris-fc","tag-paris-saint-germain-fc","tag-patrick-zabi","tag-rc-strasbourg-alsace","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}