The Olympique de Marseille Sentinel
Squad17 Aug 2026
Nahuel Herrera gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Nahuel Herrera has just signed for Olympique de Marseille, and for once the answer mattered.
Market17 Aug 2026
RC Strasbourg come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Olympique de Marseille did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Olympique de Marseille
Quinten Timber was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Leonardo Balerdi stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Leonardo Balerdi and Olympique de Marseille agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
1 academy players handed senior numbers at Olympique de Marseille
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Market17 Aug 2026
Eyes on CJ Egan-Riley again
The phone has started ringing about CJ Egan-Riley again, and this time the name on the line is Sochaux. Olympique de Marseille are listening politely and promising nothing.
Market17 Aug 2026
Olympique de Marseille promote Patrick Marchal from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Patrick Marchal has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
Olympique de Marseille are making the ground bigger
Work is signed off on a capacity of 88576. It is the sort of decision a club is judged on twenty years later, by people who were not there when it was taken.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words at Olympique de Marseille training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Arthur Vermeeren is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
In brief
- Market Olympique de Marseille borrow Nahuel Herrera
- The terraces The spotlight tightens on Nahuel Herrera