The LFP has posted a documentary online on the last hours of the summer transfer window. Three clubs in particular accepted the cameras: OM, Lorient and Lille.
Lorient-OM, it’s hard to negotiate…
The LFP cameras followed Pablo Longoria during the last hours of the transfer window. And if the president of OM is rather the hyperactive type, this time he was quite calm at the end of the market. The Phocaeans simply welcomed Bamo Meité, the Lorient defender, while Isaak Touré went the opposite way. We see in the documentary that Loïc Féry, the president of Merlus, is tough in business. We thus see him not giving up anything for the possible departure of Adrian Grbic (Lorient no longer wanted to pay his salary in the event of a loan), concluding with Rennes the arrival of goalkeeper Alfred Gomis, and making the OM leaders wait to Meity. “These little battles…”even annoys Pablo Longoria for a moment.
No new striker for Lille
In search of a new offensive reinforcement, Losc inquired about Hugo Ekitike (PSG), who happened to be much too expensive, and president Olivier Létang personally rejected the advances of Martin Braithwaite, the former Toulouse player , Bordeaux and FC Barcelona. The northern club pushed hard to recover Demarai Gray, the Everton winger. But the negotiations collapsed in the last hours of the transfer window, because the Toffees changed their conditions. “You won’t stop me from thinking that the English do what they want”, plagues a Lille leader. A failure ? Not according to President Létang who underlines that the great success of the club is to have been able to retain its scorer, Jonathan David.
Kolo Muani, it was really right
The LFP did not have cameras on the Paris Saint-Germain side. But the transfer of Randal Kolo Muani is followed through two journalists, Fabrice Hawkins (RMC) and Loïc Tanzi (L’Equipe). We can review all the stages of the soap opera: the first agreement, the blockage with Frankfurt, the despair for the French international, and finally the winning forcing of PSG. We also have confirmation that the finalization of the transfer (we mean the amount of 80 million euros and five million euros in bonus) was done at the very last second in the LFP offices. The “deal” could have fallen through…
