Report: Trabzonspor want Sunderland flops Ndong and Djilobodji but there is a catch

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Sunderland are reportedly hoping to get Didier Ndong and Papy Djilobodji off the wage bill and they are allegedly wanted in the Turkish Super Lig.

There is good news and bad news for Sunderland.

On one hand, Turkish side Trabzonspor want to take the high-earning misfits Didier Ndong and Papy Djilobodji off their books. On the other, however, they do not want to pay a penny for either of them.

It is understood that the Black Cats are desperate to get rid of both Ndong and Djilobodji, who cost a combined fee of just over £20 million in 2016. The club have suffered successive relegations in the two seasons since.

But Fotospor is claiming that Trabzonspor are trying to encourage both players to buy out their contracts at the Stadium of Light, allowing them to move to Turkey on a free transfer.

While this would mean Sunderland would be able to get two expensive flops off the wage bill, they could do with the money, too. The cash-strapped Black Cats are hoping to sell a number of first-team players in order to raise funds for new additions.

And getting rid of both Ndong and Djilobodji is proving perhaps unsurprisingly difficult.

The former spent half last season on loan at Watford with an option to buy but failed to make even a single first-team appearance for the Hornets. The latter was in Ligue 1 with Dijon but a return to France appears to have passed him by.