Since last July, Mason Greenwood has been a player for Olympique de Marseille. The Englishman, trained at Manchester United, chose to accept the Marseille club for around €31 million. Despite the controversy surrounding his past, he is keeping a low profile and is taking advantage of the first friendly matches to get to know his new teammates and his coach, Roberto De Zerbi, better. Already in form against Toulon, he was a hit in the following match, against Pau, scoring the first goal of the match. Enough to show some promise and upset his former admirer, Lazio, who were upset at being overtaken by OM.
The Italian club was the other major admirer of the striker, who clearly still hasn’t digested his choice.We already wanted him last year, but there was a problem with the player. You all know what the problem was with Greenwood. An agent mentioned the idea of seeing him in Italy, we gave him a deadline, then an auction started and I felt that I could not exceed a certain limit “, first let slip the sporting director of the Roman club Angelo Fabiani, in a long interview for Radio Lazio Stylerelayed by Sky Italy.
Angelo Fabiani on Greenwwod: “I don’t want these mercenaries»
He continues his attack without mincing his words.We offered around 26 million euros. He preferred to choose another club and, in my opinion, the best deals are those you don’t makehe continues. I want players who love the club they work for. I don’t want these mercenaries. It’s a chance not to do certain things. I have values that my parents passed on to me. He chose another path and we wish him good luck.» Mason Greenwood’s decision did not go down well at all with Lazio, who were visibly upset.
The two failures, in 2023 and 2024, remain stuck in the throats of the Lazio leaders. Last year, the player had chosen the discretion of Getafe to relaunch himself on loan. This time, it is quite the opposite with the electric atmosphere of the Vélodrome. In both cases, it is Lazio who are furious, undoubtedly annoyed to have failed twice, and still looking for a scorer for the coming season. At the beginning of the summer, the Biancocelesti lost their star striker and captain for several years, Ciro Immobile. The search continues.
