Patrick Paul

Striker - Olympique de Marseille
5 Aug 2043
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843 Edition

The Olympique de Marseille Sentinel

22 Sep 2042
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad22 Sep 2042

Remo Embolo damages knee ligaments — 27 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 27 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Match17 Sep 2042

Olympique de Marseille bow out of the cup

Valenciennes go through and Olympique de Marseille go home, 1‑2 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.

Market22 Sep 2042

Maxime Paredes is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Olympique de Marseille is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad22 Sep 2042

Gabriel Kerckaert keeps Olympique de Marseille in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Player ratings22 Sep 2042

Age has not caught Paris Brunner yet — 7.94

At 36 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.94 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Squad22 Sep 2042

Nathan Zoko: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Olympique de Marseille have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad22 Sep 2042

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.

Player ratings22 Sep 2042

Nobody could get near Maxime Paredes

Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match20 Sep 2042

Olympique de Marseille see off Sochaux

Three points for Olympique de Marseille, 2‑1 the final word against Sochaux in a contest settled by the finer margins.

In brief

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829 Edition

The Olympique de Marseille Sentinel

16 Jun 2042
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad16 Jun 2042

Words at Olympique de Marseille training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Quinten Timber 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.

Squad16 Jun 2042

Patrick Paul pulls a muscle — 14 days out

The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 14 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.

Squad16 Jun 2042

Marc David gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Marc David has just signed for Olympique de Marseille, and for once the answer mattered.

Boardroom16 Jun 2042

João Nazari will join Olympique de Marseille for nothing

The paperwork is done long before the player is. João Nazari 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.

Squad16 Jun 2042

Maxime Paredes in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Olympique de Marseille this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market16 Jun 2042

The Maxime Paredes conversation is coming

Everyone has stopped pretending: OGC Nice will make the call about Maxime Paredes this week. Olympique de Marseille have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.

In brief

828 Edition

The Olympique de Marseille Sentinel

9 Jun 2042
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad9 Jun 2042

CJ Egan-Riley signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” CJ Egan-Riley and Olympique de Marseille agree another 2 years.

Market9 Jun 2042

Michaël Akinjogunla is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Olympique de Marseille is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Boardroom9 Jun 2042

Michaël Akinjogunla signs for OGC Nice while still at Olympique de Marseille

The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Michaël Akinjogunla has agreed terms with OGC Nice for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.

Squad9 Jun 2042

Quinten Timber 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.

Squad9 Jun 2042

Tempers go at Olympique de Marseille

Moctar Guirassy 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.

Squad9 Jun 2042

A move Rémy Dubois would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Rémy Dubois is living that version at Olympique de Marseille, and it tends to show in the first month.

Boardroom9 Jun 2042

Olympique de Marseille still without a manager

8 days since the seat came open, a list of names doing the rounds, and nobody has signed anything. Every week this drags on the shortlist gets shorter.

Boardroom9 Jun 2042

Olympique de Marseille beat the market to Pierre-Alexandre Davirin from RC Strasbourg

RC Strasbourg will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Pierre-Alexandre Davirin has pre-agreed a move to Olympique de Marseille, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.

Market9 Jun 2042

Patrick Paul arrives at Olympique de Marseille as the heir apparent

Every dressing room knows how to read a signing like this one. Patrick Paul is not here to sit and wait indefinitely, and the man whose place he has been bought to take knows it better than anyone.

In brief