The beard collar, which appeared last summer on a once youthful face, only reinforced the observation. Arriving in the summer of 2021 from Schalke 04, initially on loan, Amine Harit is now a veteran of the Marseille locker room, remodeled with each transfer window, or almost. Only Valentin Rongier, the survivor, Leonardo Balerdi, Luis Henrique and Pol Lirola have more seniority on the clock. Under Roberto de Zerbi's mandate, the 27-year-old Moroccan international (24 caps, 1 goal) is on a thin line, and no one is hiding it on the OM side. It belongs to a bygone era, in a club where we no longer linger. He also has the talent and determination necessary to hang on to the branches, even thin ones, so as not to end up like a package quickly sent to a friendly club such as Genoa, like Vitinha last June, after Ruslan Malinovski or Kevin Strootman.
In August, the Marseille staff offered him a move to the Ligurian coast, but Harit declined the option of the second club Genoa, without hesitation. He responded on the pitch, as this cliché expression dictates, by being involved in all five Marseille goals during the first day in Brest (5-1, August 17), by opening the score against Reims, during the second at the Vélodrome (2-2, on the 25th). Before this match, on August 23, De Zerbi recognized this work carried out under pressure: “Serious people work regardless of how many days they have left or not in a club. Harit is a serious person, who works very well, I don't know if he will leave, he is an important player today. »
