Since its sidelining the group on the side of Olympique de Marseille, Adrien Rabiot has aroused many reactions. Arrived a year earlier in the southern club, the international community immediately imposed itself there as the boss and the captain. But now a cloakroom incident and an altercation with Jonathan Rowe occurred on August 15 after the Marseille defeat in Rennes (1-0) turned things up. Since then, Roberto de Zerbi, Pablo Longoria and Medhi Benatia have told him the exit door. Enough to make react.
If the position of the Marseille management has been a little relaxed in recent days, the fact remains that Adrien Rabiot has still not replayed with OM and will not do this this Sunday during the shock of the third day of Ligue 1 against Olympique Lyonnais (8:45 pm). Invited to express themselves on the subject, Bixente Lizarazu did not hide her complete misunderstanding. For the TF1 consultant today present on the set of the program Telefootsomething does not turn round and everything may not be said openly by club management.
“It is incomprehensible. He went from a player essential to Persona Non Grata, for a fight … and a fight in a locker room, it happens very often. I lived it in the locker room of Bayern (Munich) with Lothar Matthäus. It is not something rare. There is ego, electricity, there can be tensions. And I find that in Marseille, they made boxes with this fight. »»
Lizarazu does not understand the Rabiot affair
The 1998 and European world champion 2000 with France then issued a theory. “For me it is a non-subject, so I imagine that there is something behind because one cannot sanction a player, just because he fought with another. (…) I do not understand why they treated it that way, so I tell myself that it is a story of money, of transfer. They want to transfer it because he did not have the will to extend with Marseille and suddenly they want to recover money in the potential transfer. »»
And Bixente Lizarazu to conclude: “For me, it is not credible by reports to the fact that there was a hanging with another player. »» The transfer market closes its doors this Monday at 8 p.m. (French time) for Ligue 1. Monday. What will be the final decision for Adrien Rabiot?
