By signing for OM, Adrien Rabiot brought another asset to Roberto De Zerbi. But the French international midfielder also pushes a player towards the exit.
When Olympique de Marseille formalized the signing of Adrien Rabiot in mid-September, all of OM considered that Pablo Longoria was offering his coach the player he was missing in his locker room to reach a further level. Even if the rout against PSG, with a transparent Rabiot, calmed Marseille's ambitions, the player trained in Paris had a concrete effect, that of pushing Valentin Rongier onto the OM bench. Returning from a very serious knee injury, the latter thought he would have his place in De Zerbi's eleven this season. But he quickly understood that it would not be easy, and the signing of Adrien Rabiot is probably a fatal blow to his ambitions to form a fantastic duo with Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg. In La Provence, Jean-Charles De Bono shares this opinion, the future of Valentin Rongier is not rosy.
Rongier is a subscriber to the OM bench
For the former Olympique de Marseille midfielder, the association between Adrien Rabiot and Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg clearly sounds the death knell for Valentin Rongier's tenure. “ The arrival of Rabiot complicated things for Rongier. The Rabiot-Hojbjerg pairing is one of the three best in Ligue 1confides Jean-Charles De Bono, who thinks that the player trained at FC Nantes can possibly bounce back if he agrees, as he has already done, to move into a full-back-midfield role. He has the game intelligence needed for this option, he is the type of player who fills in the gaps in his partners. He had been good in this role with Sampaoli. » In the meantime, before returning to his former club on Sunday at La Beaujoire, Valentin Rongier only played 169 minutes this season, participating in only 5 matches and with one yellow card to his credit. Not enough to give enormous confidence to the man who was captain of OM before handing over his armband to Leonardo Balerdi.
