Mercato Mercato: Veretout, a big news falls in Marseille!
Thanks to their precious success against OGC Nice on their lawn at the Orange Vélodrome in the league on Sunday evening (2-1, goals from Milik and Bakambu), OM – Olympique de Marseille, won by Dimitri Payet and Boubacar Kamara and Valentin Rongier thus consolidated their excellent second place in the Ligue 1 standings, before the international break.
Enough to give more credit to Pablo Longoria and the Marseille leaders who broke their piggy bank during the Mercato last summer to complete the recruitment of Cengiz Ünder, Mattéo Guendouzi, William Saliba, Gerson, Konrad de la Fuente, Luan Peres, Pau Lopez and Amine Harit, not to mention the permanent transfers of Pol Lirola and Leonardo Balerdi, as well as the signings of Sead Kolasinac and Cédric Bakambus acquired in January.
But a big news has fallen concerning the Mercato OM and Jordan Veretout (29), author of 4 goals and 7 decisive assists in 29 Serie A games played with AS Roma this season, under the orders of José Mourinho…
Indeed, according to information from CalciomercatoOlympique de Marseille would have made Jordan Veretout its priority for the successor to Boubacar Kamara, who seems to be heading for a departure on a free transfer next summer (Atlético Madrid? Bayern Munich? Premier League?), as revealed by our colleagues from the newspaper The Team.
However, several other formations, including AC Milan in the event of failure with Renato Sanches (LOSC), would also be on the lookout to try to snatch the signature of the French international midfielder (5 selections), whose price would be revealed at less than €17m, i.e. the amount invested during the Mercato in 2020 by AS Roma to recruit the former FC Nantes and ASSE player from Fiorentina, as we revealed to you in Exclusive this weekend.
For his part, the Italian journalist Nicolo Schira specified that Jordan Veretout would have recently lost his starting place within the Louve club, following his refusal to extend (AS Rome would have offered him a gross annual salary of around 4M€…). Hence the recruitment of the Portuguese international, Sergio Oliveira, to his post, from FC Porto, who was requested by José Mourinho.