Guaranteed to be of the 20 clubs that host the 2013-2014 season of the French Ligue 1 championship after its victory against Nîmes (editor’s note, Ligue 2), AS Monaco will be one of the courses that will lead the market transfers this summer.

The principality club would be on the track of the Ivorian striker of Anzhi Makhachkala, Lacina Traore, according to Izvestia.

The Elephant (22) is under contract with the Russian club until 2016.

He arrived this season in Anzhi (from FC Kuban Krasnodar) for an amount of 18 million Euros.