Djibril Cisse would love to face Sunderland Football Club next season.

The French striker enjoyed a season on loan at the Stadium of Light last season, scoring 10 Premier League goals, but the Black Cats have decided against taking him from Marseille permanently.

Cisse has made no attempt at hiding his disappointment at this decision, and he hopes to sign for another top-flight side in England so he can prove his former club wrong.

"I went into the final game thinking that I was going to be taken on," he told The Guardian. "Because I had been told, when we are safe, we talk contracts. It's either a lie or a misunderstanding.

"If I had the chance to come back to another English club, I'd have to face Sunderland and it would be up to me to make them regret their decision.”