OM demands a crazy price, this player sends his lawyer

Pushed towards the exit since the end of last season, Chancel Mbemba has still not found a base. If the press regularly announces that the OM defender refuses all offers, his clan does not have the same view.

Since the summer of 2024 and the arrival of Roberto De Zerbi, Chancel Mbemba knows that he no longer has any chance of playing even the slightest minute in the Olympique de Marseille jersey. After a rather delicate last season, he did not enter into the Italian's game plans. With a total of zero seconds gleaned since the start of the 2024-2025 financial year, the Congolese international has still not packed his bags while the Marseille management is trying as best they can to sell him. Well, this is one of the versions presented. Because that of the Mbemba clan is not at all the same. According to the entourage of the banned Marseille player, Chancel never refused offers for the simple reason that he never received any.

“The information circulating is false”

For La Provence, Maître Grégory Ernes, Chancel Mbemba's lawyer, took the floor to discuss his client's situation. “ The information circulating is false. Since his arrival at OM, as a free player, Chancel Mbemba has always had an exemplary attitude towards the club. When he was told he would be left out of the first training group, he began training twice as hard. Today he read that he would refuse all transfer offers made to him. This is completely false. He has not received the slightest concrete offer during this transfer window. It is indeed the large sum requested which immediately repels potentially interested clubs. Since no exit door opens, he has no other choice but to behave like the committed professional that he is: he will respect his club and his contractual commitments until the end of his Marseille adventure. However, if an offer were to arise, Chancel Mbemba will be delighted to examine it seriously and transparently, so that a solution can be found in the interest of all. “, declared the lawyer of the Olympian central defender.

However, Foot Mercato maintains its version of the facts: the Congolese international would indeed have refused the advances of Stade Rennais, which came to the information at the end of December. New tensions with OM are probably to come.