Olympique de Marseille is one of the most active clubs on the transfer market.
It is in a studious atmosphere of the return of the classes that theOlympique de Marseille resumed training last week, under a stifling sun. Some new faces discover a group that will be reshaped in all lines.
Priority is for defense for the Marseille club. On all fronts since the start of this summer transfer window, Pablo Longoria, Mehdi Benatia and Roberto de Zerbi wanted absolutely strengthening this sector in great difficulty last season.
Roberto De Zerbi, coach of the OM.
For this, Olympique de Marseille initially bet on the young Englishman CJ Egan-Riley (22 years old), who came free from Burnley, before attaching the services of Fougueux Argentin Facundo Medina, revealed in Lens in France.
Laporte has decided for her future
Despite these two signatures, other experienced reinforcements are in the radar of the Marseille club. The name of the Moroccan international Nayef Aguerd (West Ham) has circulated, but the priority of OM was Aymeric Laporte.
Experienced at the highest level, passed by Manchester City and European champion with Spain after a brief stint in the French team, Laporte ticks all the boxes to bring added value to OM. But journalist Fabrizio Romano confirmed that this track had largely cooled. Laporte would go to Athletic Bilbao, the club that revealed it in Europe and that it had left in 2018. Clos file?
