If the defensive site remains a priority for OM in this offseason, it is also suitable for the Marseille club to strengthen itself at the forefront. If only to replace a Luis Henrique sold to Inter Milan. In recent weeks, so Olympians have multiplied offensive tracks.
One of the most concrete until then, leading to Dutch Noa Lang, has not led because of the high claims of the boy and his club, the PSV Eindhoven, before its effective transfer to Napoli. The teaching of this dossier is clear, and already stated by President Longoria: OM will not recruit a player likely to upset the balance of the wardrobe built last season.
However, while the transfer window officially opens this Tuesday 1er July, sports director Medhi Benatia and his teams must speed up the pace. The training resuming in the Phocaeans on July 7 under the orders of a Roberto de Zerbi who expects a lot from this summer market. The Italian press also reports this weekend of a Marseille offer.
OM offers 12 million euros
The Corriere dello Sport in particular announces a concrete approach to OM for Hamed Junior Traorè, the versatile attacking midfielder from Bournemouth who during the last exercise was distinguished on loan to Auxerre. Author of 10 goals and two assists in 26 matches in the AJA jersey, the 25 -year -old Ivorian international did not fail to hit several European clubs. In Serie has in particular.
Well aware of this potential competition, the Marseillais would have decided to strike the first, by submitting to the Cherries a proposal amounting to 12 million euros. The track is all the more credible since Hamed Junior Traorè has evolved two years under the direction of Roberto de Zerbi in Sassuolo, between 2019 and 2021. His most convincing years before his Burgundian experience.
While the first declared rivals of the Olympians on this case are called Parma, Sunderland or Fiorentina, Bournemouth would require a minimum of 16 million euros for its Elephant recruited in 2023 for 25 million.
