THE
arbitration scandal of which Olympique de Marseille was the victimWednesday evening at the Orange Vélodrome, must not be the tree that hides the forest.
The reality is that the Marseille club delivered a poor performance against Atalanta Bergamo. Unworthy of a team claiming to extricate themselves from the league stage of the Champions League. According to Éric Di Meco, the summer transfer window was not successful.
“Those who are there are perhaps not at the level. Last season, you didn’t have fifty players to keep. You don’t have that much after all. And if there is one to keep, it’s Rabiot and you strengthen yourself around it. Yes, there was a contractual problem with him, but how much will this contractual problem cost you if you don’t get out of the group at the finish? »asked the sports consultant on the airwaves of RMC, after the Marseille defeat.
Rabiot, his departure weakened OM
The former left back considers that OM no longer has a very high level player in its squad. “We are not yet a big player in Europe, since we are barely trying to get out of a group of twenty-four, he notes. If it’s explained to me that Vermeeren, O’Riley and Angel Gomes can very quickly be at Rabiot’s level… I’m sorry, these boys are perhaps in the making, and perhaps one day they will be very strong, but for the moment, it’s too fair. They have just arrived and they are discovering this level. And it’s not Ligue 1. Compared to what Rabiot did last year and compared to the level of OM and its ambitions, losing a guy like him is huge. »
As a reminder, Adrien Rabiot had an altercation with Jonathan Rowe, after the defeat on the pitch at Stade Rennais, during the first day of Ligue 1. Which had
precipitated his departure to AC Milan in the last hours of the transfer window.
