Foot OM – OM: Steve Mandanda in Monaco, bad news!
Steve Mandanda still wants to have a role to play, and he understood that it will not be in the Marseille jersey. The 36-year-old goalkeeper is looking for a new club.
Pushed on the bench of Olympique de Marseille by Pau Lopez, but especially by Jorge Sampaoli, Steve Mandanda understood it well, despite his status as a legend of OM, his era is now over at the Vélodrome and despite his contract that binds him with the Marseille club until 2024 he will have to ask to leave if he wishes to become holder again until the end of the current season. For Pablo Longoria, things are clear, Pau Lopez is now the number 1 goalkeeper and even if the message was not given directly to the goalkeeper trained in Le Havre, the latter knows football and his environment too well to be done. illusions. His Marseille career will be on the sidelines, and not on the pitch, which is inevitably hard to live with, especially since at the start of the season, Steve Mandanda did the job very well before having to give way to the goalkeeper. Spanish loaned by Roma. It is in this context that the 36-year-old tricolor goalkeeper has been offered in recent days to AS Monaco.
Steve Mandanda refuses to be a replacement at OM
?? @SteveMandanda in the spotlight
Our captain was given by the president 𝗣𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗼 𝗟𝗼𝗻𝗴𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗮 a flocked jersey 450 for this new symbolic level reached in @ Ligue1UberEats facing Rennes 🔵⚪️ # OMSB29 pic.twitter.com/rTn1ZTjG1R
– Olympique de Marseille (@OM_Officiel) March 13, 2021
The idea of seeing Steve Mandanda settle in the goals of the Principality’s club, where Alexandre Nübel has a hard time convincing, is not absurd, even if Niko Kovac has always supported the goalkeeper loaned by Bayern Munich. However, according to FootMercato, the prospects of seeing the Olympique de Marseille goalkeeper in the AS Monaco jersey are brutally remote. Indeed, the leaders of the Monegasque club informed the entourage of Steve Mandanda that he came to Louis II, no titular position was guaranteed to him. In other words, the goalkeeper will now replace OM could inherit the same role at AS Monaco. What inevitably put a sudden brake on this track. Obviously this does not change the situation of Mandanda a few days before the opening of the winter transfer window, the door being always open to a departure. But a priori, Marseille supporters will not see El Fenomeno in the ASM jersey.