Former Bolton fans’ favourite El Hadji Diouf has been linked with a return to The Reebok after revealing he could be on the move in January.
Diouf has failed to become a first-team regular at Sunderland after leaving the Trotters in the summer for £2.6million and Gary Megson has allegedly been alerted to his availability.
New Blackburn boss Sam Allardyce is also interested in the 27-year-old after snapping up the Senegal star from Liverpool at the start of the 2005-06 season for the Wanderers.
Diouf told the Sunderland Echo: “I have had a brief chat with Ricky (Sbragia), but I want to have a longer conversation with him and I’m just waiting
to see what happens next. Maybe I will go, maybe I will stay.
“If I get more time on the pitch and am picked more for games, why shouldn’t I stay?
“I would want to stay if that happened.
“But if I am not playing and the manager doesn’t need me, I would want to go.
“I need to have a proper chat with Ricky and find out what his plans for me are.
“I need to see what he imagines me doing in the second half of the season.”
Sbragia is not looking to offload Diouf, who played over a 100 games for the Trotters, but the winger is desperate to play regularly after making only nine Premier League starts at the Stadium of Light.
It looks as though the football odds are stacked in favour of a return to the North-West, but Big Sam’s powers of persuasion might jusy have Rovers ahead of Bolton in the queue.