Olympique de Marseille hosts AS Monaco on Sunday evening at the end of the 13th day of Ligue 1. OM will be watching Eliesse Ben Seghir, the Monegasque prodigy, like milk on the fire.
At the age of 19, Eliesse Ben Seghir has become one of the major assets of the Principality club, the young Moroccan international having extraordinary qualities. And for the six-point match against OM, Adi Hütter is counting heavily on his attacking midfielder. What we know less is that Ben Seghir was almost promised to Olympique de Marseille, before AS Monaco finally managed to win in 2019. In fact, the Marseille club had spotted the young player, and thought he had found the arguments to convince the latter to sign his first contract with OM, an offer even seeming to be close to being validated by the Ben Seghir clan. But in the space of a few days, everything went wrong for the Marseille club, because obviously this final meeting before a signing was not as secret as OM thought and the scenario went wrong.
In La Provence, Tristant Rapaud looks back on these hours which changed the destiny of Eliesse Ben Seghir to the benefit of AS Monaco and to the detriment of Olympique de Marseille. While OM waited for the player to sign the refined contract in the middle of the week, and Champagne was cool on the side of the Marseille management, the backlash was violent. “ Monday after the meeting…the cold shower. AS Monaco got wind of the compromise and has in the meantime drawn up an irrefutable offer. Include a big check and accommodation in Nice to bring the mother closer to her two children. OM found itself with its beak in the water », Explains the journalist from the Marseille daily. And this is how OM missed one of the new stars of Ligue 1. It remains to be seen who warned Monaco of the imminence of an agreement with Marseille to sign Eliesse Ben Seghir, even if that will not change anything at all. fact that on Sunday at the Vélodrome, the Moroccan international will wear the ASM jersey and not that of OM.
