OM’s best player last season, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang will not be retained by Olympian management in the event of a proposal deemed “stratospheric” during the summer transfer window. Just like Balerdi.
Olympique de Marseille’s priority is to build its 2024-2025 squad around two key players, namely Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang in attack and Leonardo Balerdi in defense. It must be said that the Gabonese international and the former Borussia Dortmund defender are two of the few players who provided satisfaction last season, so it makes sense for Pablo Longoria to want to keep them. Discussions are moving in the right direction for an extension of Leonardo Balerdi’s contract, despite the covetousness of Atalanta Bergamo and Atlético Madrid. On the other hand, the future of “PEA” is more unclear.
The ex-Chelsea striker is popular in Saudi Arabia, and it is not impossible that OM will receive a colossal offer in the coming weeks. Questioned on BFM Marseille, journalist Romain Canuti believes that in the event of an XXL proposal, the Marseille club should not retain its flagship striker. “Which position should we recruit? All positions, we need them everywhere! That’s what the leaders want, we need to change the dynamic because last year, we suffered a lot. There are a few players who gave satisfaction like Aubameyang and Balerdi. But once we’ve said that… Even them, if there’s a stratospheric offer that arrives…” said the journalist, before continuing.
Aubameyang will not be retained by OM
“The project is not to keep these two and accompany them with ten young people from the reserve. It will build in all directions, there are projects with more priority than others. The spine is important but in reality, it will concern all positions until the end of August! » commented the journalist from Le Phocéen, convinced that Pablo Longoria will not put up barbed wire around Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Leonardo Balerdi in the event of a big offer in the days or weeks to come. The president of OM had also confided a few weeks ago that a deal had been made with the Gabonese striker, who had signed in Marseille last summer on condition that he would not be retained the following summer in the event that he wanted to sign a last big contract in an exotic destination.
