The 2025 summer transfer window is now open and on the OM side, Pablo Longoria and Medhi Benatia have clear ideas on the players they want to recruit to strengthen the Roberto de Zerbi team. An envelope is even already blocked for two players.
Olympique de Marseille formalized the signing of Conrad Jaden Egan-Riley, defender, international 22-year-old English hopes arrived freely from Burnley, but things will now start very seriously. With the view of shining in the Champions League, not to figuration, the Frank McCourt club wishes to strengthen itself in the sectors identified by Roberto de Zerbi. And for that, Pablo Longoria had the green light from the US OM owner to be incisive. It is in this context that the specialized site Teamfootball announces that the Longoria-Benatia duo has already blocked 32 million euros in order to recruit Noa Lang and Mitchel Bakker, very quickly, the date of July 1 is even mentioned by our colleagues.
OM wants to strike quickly and strong at the start of the transfer window
The two files are not simple, because competition exists, but Olympique de Marseille has made the Dutch international striker of the PSV and the defender of Atalanta the two absolute priorities. “” For OM, bringing Lang and Bakker to send a clear message: the club does not just want to exist in the Champions League, he wants to play a real role. The transfer window is just beginning, but this duo may well be the first great psychological blow of a very hot summer “Explains the Teamfootball journalist, who adds that the entourage of the two players is favorable to a signature at Olympique de Marseille.
Noa Lang begs the PSV to sell it to OM https://t.co/1mldoOXIZO
– foot01.com (@foot01_com) June 12, 2025
However, concerning Noa Lang, we know that competition will be tough for Olympique de Marseille, because the PSV striker has been coveted for several months by Naples. Italian champions are hot in this case, but we can trust Pablo Longoria to find arguments capable of changing things in favor of OM, even if it means involving a Marseille player in the operation with Eindhoven. The Marseille club went into transfer window mode, so everything is possible.
