The Olympique de Marseille Sentinel
Transfer targets23 Aug 2027
Olympique de Marseille make their move for Guille Rosas
$23.6M on the table at Gijón. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Market23 Aug 2027
Igor Paixão puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Olympique de Marseille, and it is not being withdrawn.
Transfer targets23 Aug 2027
Door shut on Aleix García
Olympique de Marseille asked and Bayer Leverkusen said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Match21 Aug 2027
Still nobody has beaten Olympique de Marseille
The unbeaten run reaches 11. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
The dugout23 Aug 2027
Geoffrey Kondogbia says Olympique de Marseille went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Boardroom23 Aug 2027
Julien Colin signs on for the long haul
Olympique de Marseille moved before anybody else could: a new deal for Julien Colin, agreed quietly and announced loudly. Boards extend managers for many reasons; the good one is the one this looks like.
Boardroom23 Aug 2027
6 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.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Words exchanged at Olympique de Marseille
Leonardo Balerdi and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Market23 Aug 2027
Olympique de Marseille promote Julien Simon from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Julien Simon 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.
In brief
- Market Nicolas Renard steps up from the Olympique de Marseille academy
- Market Denis Adam steps up from the Olympique de Marseille academy
- Match Olympique de Marseille find a way past Paris FC