Towards the end of the Strootman file?
Olympique de Marseille is in a complicated situation for Kevin Strootman… The situation could be unblocked in the days to come.
OM are not yet finished with Kevin Strootman! Big on salary and ineffective on the pitch, the Dutchman has disappointed under André Villas-Boas and joined two Serie A clubs on loan in the past year and a half. Back on Monday in Marseille and at the Commanderie, the number 6 knows that he will not have his place in the workforce of Igor Tudor. He should therefore leave the club this summer, indeed according to The Team he would be in the process of negotiating his departure with the Olympian management… A termination of contract seems the most probable hypothesis.
Ribalta will take care of sales — M.Grégoire
“Pablo Longoria considers Javier Ribalta to be one of his references in football, he said so in an interview in Provence in December 2020. A reference with Fabio Paratici the former sports director of Juventus, today from Tottenham. Ribalta is his friend, I think he surrounds himself, he has improved his close guard, I think Ribalta will take care of sales in particular. We have seen that he is already very active on the Luis Henrique file at Torino with his Italian networks, because we have to get out of the players, I think he will relieve Longoria of certain tasks but afterwards in the profile indeed we’re on something quite similar, focused on Longoria, but maybe Longoria thinks he has a lot to do as president, he doesn’t really like that, interviews, meetings with Benoît Payan, rent is not his favorite area. Longoria thinks that Ribalta could come back to the heart of the work like the architecture of the deals, stuff like that. Personally I think it’s modern football. I compare Longoria to Luis Campos (technical director of PSG) and Ribalta is a bit like that too, they have their qualities and their faults. Their qualities are that they will sometimes bet on a player who is going to have an explosion, on a very great talent, besides that, they are managers of the new generation who work a lot with mandates, with always the same agents with commissions, it is the Campos side in Lille, on the saw with the transfer of Victor Osimhen where there are things badly explained. In my opinion, there are good and bad sides, I’m not judging that, I’m just saying that it fits the modern foot. But, whether it’s Longoria or Ribalta, to make the transfer window, it’s great, they are specialists but there are good and bad sides. » Mathieu Gregoire – Source: Marseille Football Club (06/27/2022)