Pushed towards the exit after a mixed 2023-2024 financial year, Pau Lopez has been on loan from OM to Girona since the start of the season. Apart from a Copa del Rey match – lost on penalties against Logrones, a resident of the Spanish fourth division – the 30-year-old goalkeeper has hardly played in Catalonia, so much so that the Liga club wishes to shorten his loan .
For the Marseille management, there is no question of reintegrating the Iberian into Roberto De Zerbi’s squad, especially since two goalkeepers were recruited this summer after Ruben Blanco’s injury in preparation: Geronimo Rulli and Jeffrey De Lange. And yet Pau Lopez would indeed be on the verge of returning to Ligue 1 if we are to believe information from the Spanish media Relevo.
The probable arrival of a goalkeeper confirmed in Lens
OM would thus be close to an agreement with RC Lens, which is negotiating with Rennes the transfer of Brice Samba. Pau Lopez would be loaned again, for six months, as part of a deal with an option to buy. He would then be put in competition with Hervé Koffi, who held the Sang et Or house against PSG in the Coupe de France (elimination of the Artésiens on penalties) and this weekend again against Toulouse (0-1 defeat at Bollaert).
On the sidelines of this last match, Pierre Dréossi, the general director of RC Lens, commented to DAZN on his club’s transfer window news. “ For Brice Samba, negotiations are still ongoing. They are tense. There are too many rumors. It’s a long negotiation, it’s been going on for around ten days but there is no agreement. », breathes the person concerned before admitting that there is “ good chance that a guard will arrive within a few days “.
