The Olympique de Marseille Sentinel
Match10 Feb 2029
Whatever happens, Olympique de Marseille do not lose
12 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Transfer targets12 Feb 2029
Olympique de Marseille rebuffed over Arthur Avom Ebong
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. FC Lorient have kept their man, and Olympique de Marseille go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market12 Feb 2029
Olympique de Marseille turn down Thun for Lewin Blum
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market12 Feb 2029
Kingsley Coman raises the bar for Olympique de Marseille
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Olympique de Marseille heard it as anything else.
Market12 Feb 2029
Only the photograph left for Ziyad Baha
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Ziyad Baha will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Olympique de Marseille the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad12 Feb 2029
A falling-out at Olympique de Marseille
Robin Risser and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad12 Feb 2029
Jules Koundé falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Boardroom12 Feb 2029
Assane Dioussé will join Olympique de Marseille for nothing
The paperwork is done long before the player is. Assane Dioussé has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Olympique de Marseille have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.
Match10 Feb 2029
The run is over for Olympique de Marseille
6 matches without defeat, and then Paris Saint-Germain. Nobody at the ground pretended it would go on forever; nobody expected it to stop here either.
In brief
- Match Olympique de Marseille are at home on the road
- Market Olympique de Marseille promote Patrick Vidal from within
- Squad Late improvement for Darío