OL need to sell and Villarreal is interested in one of the little-known gems of the Lyon club. Enough to achieve a really good transaction from an accounting standpoint.
Despite the reassuring words of John Textor after the DNCG's decision to prohibit OL from recruiting and to temporarily relegate the club to Ligue 2, the fear of seeing several players leave is real among followers of the Rhone team. The idea would be to retain executives and starters, to better separate themselves from players with big salaries, or those who don't play much. In this last category, we find Mahamadou Diawara. Stung to PSG in 2023 while he was finishing his training course, the midfielder failed to establish himself in the eyes of Pierre Sage. His playing time this season as a professional is very limited, since it is 14 minutes in two appearances in Ligue 1 and 23 minutes in two Europa League matches.
Villarreal in a hurry and motivated to buy
Suffice to say that his departure would not upset the balance of the team too much. Especially if it brought in a lot. This is what the Spanish media Fichajes reveals, which ensures that Villarreal has literally fallen for the 19-year-old Franco-Malian player, to the point of wanting to go all out to get him back this winter. The Spanish site thus affirms that Villarreal, which is having a good start to the season under the leadership of Marcelino, would be ready to put a sum in excess of 10 million euros to bring in Diawara.
This amount, which may seem high, especially for a player valued at more than 5 million euros, is justified by the fact that the yellow submarine is aware that the midfielder risks having quite a few offers this winter, and the goal is therefore to pull the rug out from under other interested clubs. The fact that OL are forced to sell could allow such an operation to take place quickly in the first days of January, even if Villarreal is not necessarily used to putting such sums on players who are still little known. at the highest level.
