Olympique de Marseille begins this transfer window with relative financial certainty, since the Marseille club is not certain of playing in the next Champions League. And inevitably, each transfer window expenditure is important.
At the heart of the winter transfer window, and to give Igor Tudor one more offensive solution, Pablo Longoria had dropped 32 million euros to bring Vitinha from Braga. At the time, the OM boss thought that the 23-year-old center-forward could bring one more solution to the Croatian coach, when Marseille was still in the race in Ligue 1 and the Coupe de France. But Vitinha did not really have the expected playing time, Igor Tudor not betting at all on the Portuguese player. We know how it ended in the standings for Olympique de Marseille, and for the coach who finally threw in the towel. What cause many questions about the use of Vitinha, and the profitability of this operation. Even if the striker trained in Braga still has four years of contract, we can ask ourselves questions. And the case for a former OM scorer.
Vitinha a recruitment error or a coach blunder
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In the Sunday edition of La Provence, Daniel Xuereb, who was at the Vélodrome during the Olympique de Marseille matches, wonders why the now former Marseille coach had this behavior with Vitinha. ” I’m not in training on a daily basis, but I thought Tudor was going to use it a lot more, put it in confidence. We had to wait to see it appear. 32 million euros to use it a few times, that does not seem normal to me. Either we take a player, we need him and we make him play, or these 32 million euros, we put them elsewhere. I was surprised how little use this player was. After that, it’s hard to judge him. For that, I would like to see him start a season and see him over several months “said the former OM striker. Under the orders of the new Marseille coach, whose identity we do not yet know, Vitinha should have his chance this time. Or else it is not to understand anything.
