OM, a big blow in sight?

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By: Manu Tournoux

Second in Ligue 1, nineteen lengths from PSG, OM has so far been a good season in the league under the orders of Roberto de Zerbi. And if the Marseillais find the Champions League at the start of the next school year, which was the main objective set by President Pablo Longoria, it will be successful.

This return to the big European scene will be a decisive criterion for the Olympian summer transfer window. A window of transfers which, as often on the canebière, could be very lively. Two players in the Marseille workforce would already arouse the lust of a European cador, Bayern Munich.

According to TzCoach and the Bavarian sports director, Vincent Kompany and Christoph Freund, actually came to supervise Leonardo Balerdi and Luis Henrique during the last classic against PSG, on March 16 at the Parc des Princes. A shock that the sky and white lost in front of their Parisian rivals (1-3).

A check of € 60 million to the key to OM?

The Argentinian defender (26) and the Brazilian winger (23) are under contract until 2028 with OM, who will be in a position of force in the event of negotiations. For the first, the French club would not be a seller within 45 million euros, the second being valued at 18 million euros by the specialized site
Transfermarkt.

Economically, these two sales could therefore bring big to the Olympians, with potentially a check greater than 60 million euros to the key. But sportingly, they would weaken them and especially forced Pablo Longoria and Medhi Benatia to find them replacements. Not always so simple …