While the most important deadlines of the season arrive, clubs have been working on a long time to prepare for this next summer transfer window. On the side of Marseille, while the training led by Roberto de Zerbi points to second place in the Ligue 1 ranking, a qualification for the Champions League would necessarily change things and allow you to have more room for maneuver thanks to income related to participation in competition, and thus bring better players. At the same time, there are also certain thorny cases that will have to be managed.
And Leonardo Balerdi, usual captain, is one of them. At the beginning of the month already, the Argentinian had already suggested that he could leave the club. “I try to find motivation. At times, we could say that it was over with OM, but it was not my mentality. I told myself that I was going to reverse the situation, give something to OM. I have always said that I would like to give a title to OM, but also in terms of money (on a future transfer), so the club progresses. I want the club to progress and I want to finish at OM ”had he launched in “The Grand Central Rendezes, Special OM”.
An operation that advances well
Precisely, the Italian newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport Balance a small bomb on this subject this weekend at the end of March. AS Roma thus rushes to the 26 -year -old Argentinian defender, having even already launched negotiations with the Marseille management. The Italian capital club wishes to strengthen its rearguard and offer new solutions to Claudio Ranieri for its defense at 3, and the Argentinian corresponds wonderfully to the profile sought by La Louve. Above all, we learn that the player would be rather hot to join Roma.
It must be said that in the ranks of the Transalpine club, there are two other Argentines – Paulo Dybala and Leandro Paredes – which push him to come. The operation could be completed around 20 million euros, still according to information from the Italian media, while the Balerdi contract expires in 2028 and it had cost the Marseillais about 11 million euros in the summer of 2021. With 22 games played in Ligue 1 this season, all as a holder, the player trained at Boca Juniors is part of the executives of Roberto de Zerbi who did not hesitate to recently. Business to follow …
