After spending the 2024-2025 season with Chancel Mbemba in its closet, OM could again come up against a similar file … but Medhi Benatia intervened.
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OM is about to definitely turn the Chancel Mbemba page. Put aside since the spring of 2024 due to a medical disagreement around a meniscus problem, the Congolese defender was dismissed from the professional group and has not played a single minute with OM for more than a year. At the end of the contract at the end of June, his departure is made. A soap opera that has left internal traces … and which could well be repeated with another central defender.
Luiz Felipe, a complicated file …
Recruited freely last winter after having terminated his contract in Saudi Arabia, Luiz Felipe did not meet expectations at all. The Italian-Brazilian has played only a few games in the Olympian jersey, without convincing the supporters or the staff. De Zerbi did not count on him for the coming season. So, to avoid a second episode at the MBEMBA, Medhi Benatia took the lead to negotiate a contract termination with Luiz Felipe.
OM preferred to pay
At the dawn of a season in the Champions League with Roberto de Zerbi, OM seeks to purify its workforce of elements deemed undesirable. After the Mbemba episode, the Marseille club did what it took to avoid a new complicated scenario to manage. If the amount has not filtered, it seems that the Marseillais have managed to pay the full year of the Luiz Felipe contract. In addition to all the potential cloakroom management problems, OM also saves a few thousand euros in salary …
