Former PSG and Liverpool centre-back Mamadou Sakho (35) has announced his retirement this Monday. The Frenchman was a free agent since six months after parting ways with Georgian side Torpedo Kutaisi. Sakho announced his retirement from the Parc des Princes, where two of his former sides – Paris SG and Paris FC – face each other in the Coupe de France RO32.

Sakho featured 201 times for PSG before joining Brendan Rodgers’ Liverpool in 2013. The defender then joined Crystal Palace in a then-club record €28m deal in 2017. Sakho returned in Ligue 1 upon the expiry of his Crystal Palace contract in 2021 in signing for Montpellier. The left-footed centre-back left the club following an alleged training ground bust-up with head coach Michel Der Zakarian.

Frequent injuries and a doping ban in 2016 meant that Sakho only has 29 France caps to his name. But the two goals he scored with Les Bleus still live long in memory as they allowed Didier Deschamps’ France to overcome a 2-0 deficit against Ukraine for a make-or-break 2014 World Cup playoff.