OM fight: the real reasons for the clash

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By: Manu Tournoux

The start of the season of Olympique de Marseille was marked by the Rabiot-Rowe episode. Back on a conflict that could leave traces.

The cast has changed slightly, not habits. Like last season, as often in its recent history, theOlympique de Marseille Perpetuates this mania to switch to frenzy at the slightest grain of sand.

While this new campaign is placed under the sign of ambition before a return to the European scene, a first defeat in Ligue 1, Friday, in Rennes (0-1), plunged the locker room in a climate of crisis.

Adrien Rabiot, essential framework of OM pushed towards the exit.

The daily La Provence has reported a strong altercation between Adrien Rabiot and Jonathan Rowe. The French international environment and the English striker came to his hands, with a slap of the young player to his elder. A scuffle that led to the final departure of the two interested parties. A man was however involved before Rabiot gets involved, according to the team: the guardian Geronimo Rulli. The Argentinian was the first to sermn Rowe. Before the situation degenerates …

How a drop of water triggers a storm …

Olympique de Marseille was quick to take action by temporarily dismissing the two players in the professional group after this episode. A more classic scene than it seems, if we trust the starting facts postponed by Provence, but which has obviously shocked the thinking heads of OM.

These bibes are therefore not without consequences, since after having been laid off, Rabiot and Rowe were pushed definitively towards the exit by his coach, Roberto de Zerbi, and his direction. A draft at the dawn of a long season.