Four recruits, renowned for some, such is OM's assessment this winter to strengthen Roberto de Zerbi's workforce. Luiz Felipe, Amine Gouiri, Amar dedic and Ismaël Bennacer were thus debauched. Beautiful drawings to put the tandem to credit Pablo Longoria-Medhi Benatia which in recent weeks has not counted its efforts to achieve its ends.
Among the players targeted by the Marseille management, there were the tricolor promising that are Mathys Tel and Jean-Clair Todibo but the investment was not proportionate then to the means granted by the Phocaeans. Same conclusion for two experienced defenders who would have prestigiously grown up the Olympian ranks.
Aymeric Laporte (Al-Nassr) and Kalidou Koulibaly (al-Hilal) have been the subject of discussions fed this winter. But the first was a little too greedy about its salary requirements, when the second, seduced by the sky and white challenge, of course, was nevertheless overvalued by its Saudi club according to the Marseille staff.
The crazy temptation endrick
The most flashy and surprising track led OM to the Brazilian nugget of Real Madrid, Endrick, in difficulty of playing time among the Merengues. Only competition, notably embodied by Arsenal, Juventus, Villarreal, West Ham or Seville, was too tough. And the White House was in any case only open to dialogue.
Finally Paul Pogba was well envisaged by the Longoria-Benatia doublet. But OM pickaxe time has not yet sounded according to the Marseille sports director: ” We thought about it, we wanted to do it. The problem: if we bring in a Paul Pogba who is not yet “made”, does it make sense to rock the balances, with the media side around, for a player who will not be able to participate in this End of the season? I know why OM is a project that speaks to him, why he would surely have liked to come. We will follow the evolution over the six months, and if there is something to do, we would be delighted to have a player like Paul Pogba to give us a hand next year. »»
