OM recovers Ismaël Bennacer!

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By: Manu Tournoux

On August 31, it was the disappointment that took OM fans, after seeing the arrival of Ismaël Bennacer Capoter in the final moments of the summer transfer window. AC Milan had finally refused to let its Algerian international milieu spin. Roberto de Zerbi had nevertheless warned, he would not forget the player and would retry his luck in January.

And this time, it worked. In the space of a few hours, the Marseille management managed to convince Milanese leaders to let Bennacer spin in the form of a paid loan (€ 1 million), with purchase option at € 12 million (+ € 3M of € bonus). The Marseille club has formalized the news. “” OM is pleased to announce the signature of Ismaël Bennacer from AC Milan. 27 -year -old Algerian international, the midfielder has engaged in the form of a loan with option to buy with the Olympian club after the success of his medical examination », Can we read in the OM press release.

A damn reinforced midfielder

It is a magnificent blow made there by Olympique de Marseille, with this high quality reinforcement obtained in the last hours of the winter transfer window. With Höjbjerg, Rabiot, Rongier and Bennacer, the Olympian club offers a bommemic midfield, which will offer many options to De Zerbi. After a difficult first part of the season marked by a long injury, Bennacer had found the grounds and had again won his place.

However, he would have lived badly his replacement at the break during the last Milanese derby, as reported La Gazzetta dello Sportand he was not sure to enter the plans of his new coach Sergio Conceicao. Despite everything, AC Milan wanted to replace it digitally and reached an agreement to recruit French Warren Bondo, who was playing on the side of Monza.