On August 8, OM will play the third preliminary round of the Champions League. A crucial deadline for the Marseille club, which must quickly complete its transfer window to be competitive in a month.
For the moment, Pablo Longoria has only completed one recruit in the person of Geoffrey Kondogbia, recruited from Atlético de Madrid for around 8 million euros. The rest of the transfer window is still under construction. Olympique de Marseille is still extending Alexis Sanchez and must at the same time recruit at least three full-backs and two attackers.
OM behind in recruitment?
Pablo Longoria and Javier Ribalta have their work cut out for them and if on the side of the supporters, we are not really worried yet because we know that the general staff of OM is generally reactive on the transfer market, certain observers are alarm about them. This is particularly the case of Candice Rolland, who shook Pablo Longoria on the antenna of the L’Equipe channel by expressing his concern vis-à-vis the slow transfer window of the Olympian club one month from the third preliminary round. of the Champions League.
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“There is only one rookie, we are one month away from the first match of the season in the Champions League. Too many players are missing, three full-backs are missing, there is a new coach with a new system to quickly assimilate. There are many questions, many questions. Will Alexis Sanchez stay? It still completely changes the transfer window of Olympique de Marseille. considers the journalist from L’Equipe before concluding.
“There are big questions, OM are not ready at all. When we look at the Lens transfer window, it seems that Lens is more ready than Marseille to play this play-off match when it was OM who finished third. For me it’s super urgent, the transfer window will surely settle down but the players must quickly get to know each other to be ready on the day of the preliminary round of the Champions League. I am very worried about OM” analyzes Candice Rolland, for whom Olympique de Marseille will have to quickly position itself on full-backs and attackers to complete its workforce as quickly as possible. At the risk of doing like ASM last season in the Champions League play-offs, namely falling by the wayside because the squad had not been completed in time.
