FOOTBALL: PSG SACK CELT TARGET YAKIN.

Byline: ROBERT MARTIN

FORMER Celtic transfer target Hakan Yakin was last night sacked by Paris Saint Germain less than a month after joining them from FC Basel.

Yakin infuriated the club by under going a hernia operation against the wishes of the French club, who had signed the player on a four-year deal for pounds 1million.

Yakin underwent the op on the instructions of his Swiss doctor, Heinz Buhlman, when the French club's doctors insisted there was no hernia.

And the club immediately responded by issuing a statement stating they will now ask FIFA to cancel his contract.

It said: "Since he did not receive the approval of the club, PSG has decided not to go any further with Mr Hakan Yakin, who is still the responsibility of FC Basel since his contract has not been registered."

PSG coach Vahid Halilhodzic went a step further, describing the player as "perturbed".

Proof

He said: "I am not at all happy with his decision because we gave him proof that this operation was unnecessary.

"I cannot accept that the opinion of a general practitioner should decide the fate of my player while the most eminent specialists in the field tell me it wasn't a groin hernia.

"He hadn't even arrived at the club and was already causing me problems. I knew in Switzerland he was a bit of a pet, the star. I knew all that.

"But this decision seems a bit bizarre. I think that he is poorly advised, maybe even manipulated. This player is perturbed."

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TROUBLED: Yakin