French mercato : OL, OM, Bordeaux, the first movements of this summer mercato
In his traditional “Special Transfers” for spring, the Newspaper “France Football“, has presented a summary of the main and hotest transferts in the french “Ligue 1″.
The Newspaper comes back on the migration of french players and coaches, and also gives some interesting infos of some of the prestigious frecnh player playing abroad.
Here is the outline of scoops recently delivered …
Marseille, the large roundabout with spring
“If they love me, the president and José Anigo does not hold me” (Taye Taiwo)
In Marseille, the strategy is clear : “we must sell before buying”.
Thus, to endorse to rebirth, the OM will actively leave some players (Taiwo, Zenden, Wiltord, M’Bam, Zubar, Cana and Niang) and in the same time recruit new ones (Erding, Cetin, Cabaye …).
Lyon in search of lost talent
Lyon is aiming several goals …
The club wants to find a good player on the left side, a true middle left player, a great striker, even a very good midfielder able to replace Juninho, on the start. In the focus of the OL : the “lillois” Bastos and Rami, the striker Santos, Neymar or Dabo from the club Saint Etienne. Those players could fill the departures of Källström, Grosso, Fabio Santos, Mensah and Bodmer. Benzema could even reconsider the appeals of Manchester United or the Real Madrid in case of non-qualification of the OL in C1.
Bordeaux, six weeks to retain Gourcuff
In Bordeaux, a single idea : to build a team around Gourcuff. In other words, the objective is to remove the option to buy the midfielder and then obtain an agreement to continue the adventure. On the departure, several executives : Cavenaghi, Chamakh, Diawara or Fernando. In the focus of the leaders: Manceau Pelé, Yohan Cabaye, Michaël Ciani and Roman Jérémy Ménez …
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