Pablo Longoria came out of his silence, the day after the thunderous announcement of Adrien Rabiot and Jonathan Rowe following their altercation in the Marseille locker room in Rennes. OM supporters who hoped for details and a precise justification for events that led to this shock decision may be a little disappointed. The Marseille president told AFP that he had been forced, with the approval of Medhi Benatia and Roberto de Zerbi, to put the two protagonists on the list of transfers.
The Spanish leader was not in the locker room when the fight broke out, but what was reported to him seems serious enough to explain what happened afterwards.
OM “undergoes” the situation
“It was something incredible, violent, very aggressive and which exceeded all limits. Roberto de Zerbi has been training for 13 years, Medhi Benatia has been in high -level football since he was 22 years old, I started in professional football 20 years ago. I think we have enough experience every three to say that we had never seen such a thing in a locker room.
(…) Do you think that me, president of Olympique de Marseille, I am happy to arrive at this type of situation with one of the most efficient players of last season and which I presented as an example? Honestly, as a club, we are undergoing the situation. We are the victim of a situation, a limitless fight, an event of extreme violence, something incredible. It is a decision that protects the institution, which protects the season. ”
We therefore still do not know the nature of the fight, nor how it went so that three people with the experience of Longoria, Benatia and Zerbi, who all have spent their time praising Adrien Rabiot, are unanimous on the sanction to be taken …
