The love story will have been beautiful and intense, but it will not have lasted more than a year. Arriving free in Marseille in the summer of 2024, Adrien Rabiot brought happiness to the Marseille club for a season. If he seemed set for another year, everything changed one evening in August. After an improbable defeat in Rennes (1-0), the French midfielder had a clash with his teammate, Jonathan Rowe. Everything then came together and the OM management sidelined him before pushing him towards the exit, towards AC Milan. Since then, tension has remained palpable between the two parties.
Present in Clairefontaine as part of the October gathering of the French team, engaged in qualifying for the 2026 World Cup, Adrien Rabiot spoke on Tuesday of this famous hasty departure from OM. And he used a strong expression to express his state of mind by considering himself the victim of “a form of betrayal » from the Marseille leaders. Words which obviously did not fall on deaf ears since Roberto De Zerbi responded to them through the media.
The Italian coach of Olympique de Marseille gave a long interview to Corriere della Sera published this Thursday. Confirming having witnessed a fight such as he had not ” Never “ seen, the former Sassuolo tactician almost rejoiced at the consequences. “It did us good because the club decided to do without Rabiot who did not want to take a step back. » A sentence and words that are scathing to say the least against the AC Milan midfielder.
Adrien Rabiot and OM recovered
This spectacular divorce between OM and Adrien Rabiot does not seem to have had too much of an impact on the sporting performances of both parties. While many observers believed that Marseille would have a hard time recovering from the departure of their former captain, subsequent events proved them wrong. The Phocéens thus beat PSG at the Vélodrome (1-0), a first in the championship for fourteen years. They then defeated Ajax Amsterdam in the Champions League (4-0) and moved up the Ligue 1 standings, a small point behind the Parisian leader.
As for Adrien Rabiot, he did not wait to blend into the Rossonero collective. Alongside Luka Modric in particular, the former PSG man is enjoying himself under the orders of Massimiliano Allegri, his former coach at Juventus who did what was necessary to attract him to Milan. Only resentment and a solid misunderstanding between the player and OM remain.
