Mercato: Deulofeu, a lot of info has just fallen in Marseille!
Long announced in the sights of Pablo Longoria on the side of OM – Olympique de Marseille, Gerard Deulofeu (27), author of 6 goals and 2 assists with Udinese in 19 Serie A games since the start of the season , ultimately did not move during this winter Mercato.
Indeed, only Sead Kolasinac (Arsenal) and Cédric Bakambu (free) will have joined the Marseille club trained by Jorge Sampaoli this winter, in addition to the recruitment of French central defender Samuel Gigot who will however end the season in the jersey of Spartak Moscow on loan. .
A Mercato OM which will therefore have been much calmer than last summer when Olympique de Marseille had registered no less than ten reinforcements (Pau Lopez, William Saliba, Luan Peres, Mattéo Guendouzi, Gerson, Konrad de la Fuente, Cengiz Ünder , Amine Harit, Pol Lirola, Leonardo Balerdi).
But if Pablo Longoria and the Marseille leaders, who finally retained Duje Caleta-Car or even Boubacar Kamara and Bamba Dieng, had a priori checked the name of Gerard Deulofeu … the former international left winger of Barça would never have was the subject of concrete approaches from OM in January!
In any case, that’s what Udinese sporting director Pierpaolo Marino said on the Serie A outfit’s official website: “We have actually read quite a few rumors about Gerard Deulofeu… but we don’t “We never had any contact with OM management on this issue, and anyway, we had no intention of selling Deulofeu.” This is clear.