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Journalist
Passionate about sport, cinema and television (on screen and behind) since his childhood, Bernard has been a journalist for 10 Sport since 2018. More skilled with the keyboard in hand than with the ball on his feet, he decides to mainly cover a beloved sport, criticized and hated at the same time (football) and a sport that is not one (wrestling).
Already very active in the summer transfer window, with eleven recruits on the clock, Olympique de Marseille welcomed an additional player at the beginning of September in the person of Adrien Rabiot. A market opportunity that Pablo Longoria did not want to miss, who received the approval of Frank McCourt for this prestigious recruitment.
After getting your hands on eleven new players during the summer transfer window, Pablo Longoria was not satisfied! To everyone's surprise, loon welcomed a twelfth recruit at the beginning of September in the person of Adrien Rabiot, without a club since his departure from the Juventus at the end of the previous season. A market opportunity too interesting to be ignored by the Marseille team, which had to work hard to complete this file which was not planned.
“A huge opportunity”
Recently interviewed by The Team, Pablo Longoria detailed behind the scenes of this recruitment: “ It was a huge opportunity, at club level. We decided to be ambitious, and at the same time demanding. I asked all teams to have additional commercial income to enable them to recruit Adrien Rabiot. This was not planned for August 30. We must now create extras, to bring everyone to the same level ».
“Frank said to me: 'Here we go!' »
« When Medhi told me that there is this Rabiot possibility, it was a bit like with coach De Zerbi. The first thing was to call the supervisory board to explain, the second to explain to Frank, continues Pablo Longoria. Everyone was aligned: we are taking a financial risk to try to win in sport, and that brings us a lot more benefits in the future. In my position, clearly, it's a big advantage to have a solid, stable and determined owner like him. When I was analyzing all the numbers to bring in Adrien, how… Frank said to me: “Here we go!” OK, I have to do things right, but your owner has faith “. An agreement was finally reached, and Adrien Rabiot was able to sign up for two seasons.
