OM fires four players, January will be explosive

The leaders of OM make no secret of it, they are counting on the month of January to make some adjustments within Roberto De Zerbi's squad. But before recruiting, the Marseille club will have to sell.

The key word of this winter transfer window will be “balance” at Olympique de Marseille, as Medhi Benatia recalled in her long interview with RMC in the middle of the week. The Marseille club will be on the lookout to strengthen the squad available to Roberto De Zerbi and wishes in particular to recruit in central defense, while remaining on the lookout in the Paul Pogba file. But there is no question for OM of stacking players when the team is not playing in the European Cup this season. It will therefore be necessary to sell before recruiting with all your might and according to information from Provencefour players are clearly pushed towards the exit in January.

OM wants to sell before recruiting this winter

The first is none other than Chancel Mbembaunwanted for six months and who had been placed in the loft last summer. Stade Rennais came forward to recover the Congolese international, who did not follow up and is obviously waiting for more lucrative offers. Another central defender is leaving in the person of Bamo Meïté. His case is however different because the Ivorian international has interesting potential in the eyes of the Marseille board, who would like to lend him without a purchase option. Red lantern in Ligue 1 and humiliated by Puy Foot in the Coupe de France on Saturday, Montpellier is interested. In the defensive area, another player asks questions and will not be retained: Lilian Brassier. Recruited last summer from Brest, where he was a revelation last year, the French defender has not confirmed the hopes placed in him and is no longer really in the little papers of Roberto De Zerbi, who does not is not against his departure.

Finally, the fourth player that OM would like to get rid of in January is none other thanAmine Harit. Suspended then injured, the Moroccan international has not played since the match against PSG at the Vélodrome and OM would welcome his departure in order to save an imposing salary. The Marseille club would also be excited by the idea of ​​recovering around ten million euros thanks to this departure, even if the managers are aware that it will be difficult to convince the former Nantes player to leave during the season. The files on Medhi Benatia's desk are therefore numerous in this month of January and it now remains to be seen which departures will be the easiest to achieve to reduce the payroll of Olympique de Marseille before considering a potential transfer window in the direction of arrivals.