Pablo Longoria and Roberto de Zerbi placed the defensive solidity at the top of the summer “short-list”. Exit the exotic tracks: the Marseille direction wants a taulier already broken with hexagonal jousts. Double objective: to secure the rearguard and, above all, weaken a European rival which disputes the top of the table. In the spans of the commandery, we even speak of a file deemed “More accessible than Laporte or Fofana”.
The player in question is none other than Facundo Medina, Argentinian pillar of RC Lens. According to the columnist Mohamed Bezzouaoui, the 25 -year -old international “Is hot arch” To rally the Old Port. Longoria has already surveyed those around her, and the answer would have been unambiguous: Medina loves “the atmosphere of the velodrome”. Lens, aware of the appetite of his defender, will not be able to raise the auctions too much under penalty of managing a case sensitive to the locker room.
Already agree? This defensive rock would have said yes to de zerbi
Solid in duels, rough but regular, Medina is easily projects: the perfect profile to compose a 100 % Argentinian hinge with Leonardo Balerdi. De Zerbi already imagines this aggressive pair in his 4-3-3 “top of line”. Only uncertainty: the future of Balerdi, courted in Serie A; If one leaves, the other will have to be supported by an experienced right -hander.
OM on the point of stripping a direct rival
Estimated between 10 and 15 M €, the former Talleres player costs much less than an English international. At 25, he also ticks the dear resale box to the Spanish president. Above all, OM saves on adaptation: four full seasons in Lens, a community license, a French already correct. By the way, the Artesian club, already an orphan of Dance, would lose its second defensive boss.
Lens will not let go before ensuring their own transfer window; And Marseille may have to wait until a possible qualification in the Champions League to finalize. But the terrain is marked, and Longoria loves these flash offensives at the end of negotiation. If the president manages to conclude, OM will win a stopper … and a direct opponent will lose a pillar. Double blow.
