Pogba at OM, confirmation falls

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By: Manu Tournoux

With the signatures of Luiz Felipe, Amine Gouiri, Amar dedic and Ismaël Bennacer, OM completed a very promising winter transfer window, which makes its coach Roberto de Zerbi happy. A recruitment that could have been even more prestigious if the other tracks explored had resulted. The names of Jean-Clair Todibo, Aymeric Laporte and Kalidou Koulibaly in defense, but also of Mathys Tel and Endrick in attack thus circulated. Just like that of Paul Pogba.

Medhi Benatia confirmed it, the French midfielder (31 years old) is a player whom Marseille really planned to enlist before retracting for several reasons: uncertainty about his physical condition already, since the tricolor international does not will be authorized to replay that in next March after eighteen months of suspension for doping; And the imbalance that his arrival could have caused in the Olympian locker room, in a fairly well supplied game sector.

For Pogba, “maybe it will change”

But if he did not join the sky and white in January, the former SAR of Juventus Turin is an option that the Marseille sports director does not exclude reactivating this summer. A version confirmed by Roberto de Zerbi on Friday, at a press conference.
“Paul Pogba is a very great player, but it was necessary to understand where we could use it once he would have been available to play, what role, what position”he first explained to justify his non-adventure.

“The more champions there are, the more happy I am, it was not thatchained the Italian technician. It was a general assessment and maybe it will change. But at present, this decision has been made due to several factors. »» By the next offseason, the old bianconero has all the time necessary to get back in shape. Once he will be able and determined to regain his best level, he already knows that he will be welcome to the Old Port.