Livingston's Joel Nouble left in transfer limbo as club announce Dylan Bahamboula exit

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Livingston have announced the departure of attacking midfielder Dylan Bahamboula, while boss David Martindale admits he is surprised that star striker Joel Nouble is still the club after being on the verge of an exit on Saturday.The Lions have confirmed that 28-year-old Bahamboul, who joined the club in July 2022 on a two-year deal, has come to an agreement with the club facilitate an early exit from his contract.However, it appears that Nouble will not be following him out the door just yet.At the weekend, Martindale left the 28-year-old out of the squad for the Scottish Cup win over Raith Rovers and revelaed Nouble was not "a million miles away" from leaving the Tony Macaroni Arena, following a bid from Gary Caldwell's Exeter City.But interest from the League One club has cooled and Martindale said: "I genuinely thought Joel wouldn't be in the building this week - but he is."They [Exeter] haven't come back to me so I have to utilise my best players at this point.

He wanted to play last week, it was my decision."I'll probably speak to Joel on Friday and see where we are. I believed we weren't a million miles away from getting something sorted."There have been nibbles and interest but I had a concrete offer in.

It was the first offer, I would have thought the deal would have got done this week."The first offer was not a million miles away, it was marginal.

That's why I was so confident."It was nothing. It was very marginal - you need to change that a wee bit, you need to change this.