These are not regrets that accompany Benjamin Pavard from Inter Milan. The 2018 world champion is one of the latest defensive reinforcements from Olympique de Marseille this summer. In a sector in difficulty last season and on this start of the exercise, the Marseille club went to seek experience. Alongside Nayef Aguerd, OM offered Pavard. It comes straight from Inter Milan on loan with purchase option set at 15 million euros.
But according to the Italian press, the Nerazzurri do not deplore his departure, notably pointing to behavioral problems on the end of his passage in Lombardy. There Gazzetta dello Sport took stock of the finalist of the last Champions League and explains that the leaders preferred to keep Yann Bisseck rather than Pavard, the Dutchman being younger and therefore better valued on the market.
This is not the only advanced argument. The daily Il Giorno evokes that the behavior of French has played against it: “The replacement of Pavard eliminates from the project a player who, because of his behavior, had lost the confidence of the management. »» A reference to the last complicated months for the defender, in disagreement with his coach Christian Chivu, especially during the preparation.
Secret negotiations
Benjamin Pavard was also cold with his club, since he demanded certain guarantees on his playing time for the World Cup and did not appreciate seeing Inter Milan negotiating his departure with several clubs, from Saudi Arabia to Galatasaray. According to the Transalpine press, this situation weighed on the atmosphere of the locker room for the French international.
After nine years abroad, between Germany and Italy, Pavard finds the French elite. The former Dogue returns to Ligue 1 by OM door and will start his first challenge at the Vélodrome on September 12 against Lorient, while he is currently with the French team.
