Earthquake in Marseille. Free since June 30 and the end of his contract with Juventus, Adrien Rabiot is about to sign with Olympique de Marseille. While the press was talking, on Sunday evening, about very advanced contacts, the Marseille club released a press release to announce an agreement in principle. The player is expected in Marseille in the next few hours to undergo a medical examination and initial his two-year contract.
The signing of the midfielder of the Blues at the Sky and White is something of a surprise. And not only because the Parisian was courted by many European big names including Arsenal, FC Barcelona and AC Milan. If the announcement of the arrival of Adrien Rabiot at OM is a shock, it is also because of his nine years spent at PSG.
As a child, Adrien Rabiot was nevertheless fully behind OM
Questioned in 2016 before the final of the Coupe de France between the two enemies of French football, Adrien Rabiot had completely excluded a possible signing with OM. “Wearing this jersey one day? It’s not possible”he had asserted in the columns of Provence while the Marseille management’s attempt to bring him in on loan in the summer of 2013 was being discussed.
“For me, it was not an option to be loaned out,
he had added. At first, I talked about it with my family and my brothers, I even thought it was a joke. Going to play in Marseille, it’s inconceivable.” According to former teammates when he was a child, Adrien Rabiot preferred OM to PSG in his early youth.
“During the Classicos, he was clearly for OM”Abdelhak Benaniba, a former youth teammate at US Créteil Lusitanos, where he played for six years as a child, told So Foot. “He was behind them all the way,” launched another of his former partners. According to So Foot, Véronique Rabiot, his mother was also very reluctant to the idea of her son finishing his training at PSG…
“During the Classicos, he was clearly for OM”Abdelhak Benaniba, a former youth teammate at US Créteil Lusitanos, where he played for six years as a child, told So Foot. “He was behind them all the way,” launched another of his former partners. According to So Foot, Véronique Rabiot, his mother was also very reluctant to the idea of her son finishing his training at PSG…
