This Friday at a press conference, Gennaro Gattuso spoke about the winter transfer window and the end of the Olympique de Marseille season.
L’Olympic Marseille is preparing to start its year 2024 with a trip to the lawn of Thionville this Sunday in the 32nd final of the Coupe de France. After a mixed first part of the season in the league, the Phocéens will play on three tables with the Europa League and will hope to shine in each of them.
Gattuso wants recruits
Present at a press conference this Friday, Gennaro Gattuso spoke without shame about the winter transfer window of the Marseille club, which could be a major turning point in his team’s season. The Italian technician has promised movement and knows what he wants for this transfer window. “I want them to be players who come because they want to. I can’t make promises, it’s the land that makes the promise. (…) If there are important players who want to move, it is possible. But it all depends on these players and the funds that arrive.he explained.
The 2006 world champion went even further by revealing that he wanted to recruit a midfielder and perhaps a left back this winter, Renan Lodi being the only professional left back in his squad. “I’ll be honest with you: today we need a midfielder numerically. Defender, attacker… We can manage and change positions but if we have a problem, we will be in difficulty numerically. (…) We need an alternative to Lodi and a midfielder. We will have to see what the transfer window offers. After five or six matches, when the players return from the CAN, we will have a squad of 28 or 29 players. If we don’t make any sales, we risk having this squad and I don’t like having so many players to manage.”.
“Do something exceptional”
Gattuso also spoke about his ambitions for the year 2024 after an encouraging end to 2023 (5 wins, 2 draws, one defeat), and he visibly hopes that his team will be able to be competitive on all levels, including in the French Cup. “Staying in the continuity of how we finished. Remain a team for 95 consecutive minutes. The objective is to qualify for the European Cup, do well in the Europa League, go through the rounds in the Coupe de France to do something exceptional. Growing as a team »he assured.
