The Olympique de Marseille Sentinel
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Olympique de Marseille bid $16.3M for Théodore Renault
The offer went to Mouscron this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
An offer of $15.6M for Jaydee Canvot
Olympique de Marseille have gone to Crystal Palace with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A move Riyad Mahrez 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. Riyad Mahrez is living that version at Olympique de Marseille, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Olympique de Marseille
Benjamin Pavard 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Emerson signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Emerson and Olympique de Marseille agree another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at Olympique de Marseille training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Riyad Mahrez 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
No place for Jeffrey de Lange in the plan
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Jeffrey de Lange has his answer from Olympique de Marseille; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
Igor Paixão knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Igor Paixão trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market3 Aug 2026
24 months and counting on Emerson
Still no offer on the table, and Emerson’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
In brief
- Market Experience through the door at Olympique de Marseille
- Market Olympique de Marseille bring in an old head
- The terraces The spotlight tightens on Lucas Pérez