The Olympique de Marseille recruitment campaign leaves us fearing the worst given the pedigree of the recruits.
The Olympique de Marseille transfer window is getting carried away. After completing the arrival of Jean Onana just a few days after the opening of the transfer market, the Olympian club in fact formalized, on Tuesday, the signing of Ulisses Garcia and reached an agreement regarding Faris Moumbagna, the striker Cameroonian from Bodo/Glimt.
The name of the 23-year-old center forward will hardly speak to Olympian supporters. He nonetheless displays flattering statistics with 18 goals in 36 matches in Norway in 2023 but also 6 goals in the Europa Conference League this season. He was also selected by Rigobert Song to compete in the African Cup of Nations and is even entered at the end of the match, Monday, during the draw against Guinea (1-1).
However, his lack of references is not without concern. Daniel Riolo also fears the worst given the feedback from scouts who have already seen the Indomitable Lion play and this also applies to Jean Onana and Ulisses Garcia. “ These are players we don’t know so we ask scouts who work with agents and it will be difficult to find people who say good things about these players. It’s even worse. I’ve been told it’s super creepy. It’s worrying “, he said about the Marseille recruits.
But the situation does not surprise the RMC polemicist. “OM is not a club where cracks, Champions League players will come,” believes the RMC journalist. These are tired players, at the end of their Aubameyang-type career or failing in Europe. This is the sad reality of OM,” he recently confided, taking the example of Vitinha, recruited last winter: “ No observer had seen it. None say he is worth €32 million. It’s not a crack and that says a lot about what OM is. »
