Last summer, at the end of the transfer window, Olympique de Marseille decided to lend with option to buy Azzedine Ounahi in Panathinaïkós. The Moroccan international did not fall into the plans of the Olympian management for the coming season. From the age of 25, after an XXL World Cup with Morocco, the relaying environment had long hoped to explode at OM. But he was never able to flourish completely. And while there is one of the best elements of the Atlas Lions in selection, so he wanted to stay in Europe to remain a competitive minimum.
Squatted, he had therefore joined Panathinaikós in Greece with the aim of finding his football and the pleasure of playing after recent months complicated on the personal level. “Last season was complicated for me. I had an injury and I had personal problems, things outside of football and that impacted me. I did not work enough and that I assume it. I didn't work enough to have the best level. I will not make the same mistakes, with a new mentality ”he explained at the time of his signature in Greece. After the Word, place in the field for the Moroccan who had to show that he had lost none of his football.
Brighton is already chatting with the player
Under the green and white colors, the native of Casablanca gradually found sensations. After a start -up season start to the jet of saw, he gone up and has established himself as an essential element of his team. Author of 5 goals and 7 assists in 37 games, he was voted best player in Panathinaïkós by supporters. To the point of pushing his direction to want to keep it. But according to our information, the Greek club, although wishing to keep it, cannot pay the 11.5 million euros in the purchase option.
So inevitably, other clubs are starting to take the temperature. According to our indiscretions, Brighton is currently chatting with the Moroccan international. The English club has been following the player for a very long time and had already shown interest in January 2023 after the 2022 World Cup. Brighton had also been able to observe it last season during the double confrontation against OM in the Europa League. If the player is thrilled at the idea of evolving in the Premier League next season, he already has an oral agreement with the English club on the contours of a contract. It remains to be seen whether this interest will materialize and that it will go to the end when Ounahi still belongs to OM.
