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Author of a checkered start to the season, OM is preparing a winter transfer window during which several unwanted players could leave. And for good reason, the objective of the Marseille club is to further reduce the club's payroll after having already started this phase well. So two or three players could be pushed at the start.
As the winter transfer window approaches, theABOUT should be less active than last summer when 12 new players arrived. This time, it will not be a question of spending at will, but of further reducing a payroll considered too high internally. In this perspective, theABOUT wants to act quickly and already knows who will be pushed out as revealed Mohamed Toubache-Ter.
2 or 3 undesirables pushed at the start?
« They absolutely need to reduce the payroll and they are aiming to let go of 2 or 3 players fairly quickly from the start of the transfer window. It is also an instruction. They are rather undesirables. They know very well where the gaps are, especially in the defensive area, they have targeted it. This was also mentioned to them by the coach “, he confided during a Space organized on X. Moreover, reducing the payroll was already a subject last summer, as Roberto De Zerbi assured at a press conference. The coach of theABOUT revealed that the club had saved €20M in salary.
“We lowered players’ salaries by around €20 million”
« I feel very good here, very good in this city, but we must not forget that we are trying to build a new team, a strong team. We were eighth last year, we lowered players' salaries by around €20 million (he's probably talking about the annual payroll, editor's note). So it's not perfect, you're right, especially at the Vélodrome. It's something that affects us a lot », confided the Italian technician to the media after the victory against the FC Nantes (2-1).
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