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Former Reading and Senegal player Ibrahima Sonko has admitted he paid for the plane ticket for Everton's new signing Oumar Niasse to get his big break in Europe.

Niasse was the subject of one of the biggest deals on Transfer Deadline Day, moving to Goodison Park from Lokomotiv Moscow in Russia for $19.5m.

Sonko spotted the 25 year old back in Senegal and paid all his expenses to sign for his club at the time, Turkish Super Lig side Akhisarspor.
He says he "works his socks off on the pitch":

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