“Completely disfigured faces”: Pablo Longoria lets go on the Rabiot-Rowe fight

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By: Manu Tournoux

OM found a smile. Fifteen days after his defeat on the lawn of Olympique Lyonnais, the Marseille club took it 4-0 against FC Lorient, Friday, at the opening of the 4e daytime. What are somewhat reassured when the journey of Real Madrid on Tuesday, on Tuesday, at the opening of the Champions League.

And this victory is all the more carrying for the Olympian camp since Roberto de Zerbi aligned a New-Look team with several of the summer recruits. The Marseille transfer window has once again been very agitated and all the more so since the Marseille leaders had to resolve to separate from Jonathan Rowe and Adrien Rabiot following their fight after the inaugural defeat on the lawn of Stade Rennais. An event to which Pablo Longoria returned.

“It was a complicated moment, it's a reality,
He entrusted to the microphone of France Inter on the eve of the shock against Real Madrid. To separate from his best player, a player who gave us a lot last season … I do not change a word on what I think of Adrien. But football is an individual sport, not collective. It is necessary to make decisions for the good of the collective. »»

Pablo Longoria does not regret anything

However, the Spanish leader took care, once again, to remain elusive about the content of the fight. “I was not there but never in my life I have seen players leaving the locker room with the completely white, completely disfigured face. In life you should never regret when you make strong decisions with conviction ”, he only commented before saying to himself the victim of the situation.

“What club replaces its best player at the end of the transfer window for 10 million euros?” It would not be very logical ”he fed up, regretting having had to change his plans.