OM failed directly in the transfer window, “I didn’t even wait…”

The facts date back to the summer of 2016, when OM had limited resources in the transfer window before the takeover of Frank McCourt: Franck Tabanou had been approached by the Marseille management for an arrival on loan. But the former ASSE left-back finally favored an adventure in Spain, without taking the time to hesitate for long.

A few months before the buyout of theABOUT par Frank McCourt which was made official in October 2016, the Marseille club had very limited financial means to make its market. This is the reason why operations in the form of loans multiplied that summer, notably with the arrivals of Shirt Brides, William Winner or even Clinton N’Jie. And OM also tried their luck with Franck Tabanouunder contract with Swansea and who had established himself as a reference in Ligue 1 at the left-back position in previous years with theASSE.

“OM offered a loan, I preferred a transfer”

Questioned in the columns of The Team, Tabanou tells the interest ofABOUT regarding him in 2016: “ After my loan to Saint-Étienne from Swansea, the club told me that it was not counting on me. I then have two years of contract left. It’s August 31, I’m at a restaurant with my wife. My agent calls me to tell me that Granada is interested and Marseille too. OM offered a loan, I preferred a transfer. But I didn’t even wait for their response, I chose Spain and a Championship that suited me better », confides the former player of theASSEwho therefore opted for Grenade rather than theABOUT that summer.

“The training sessions were like nothing”

But the experience of Franck Tabanou in Spain quickly turned into a fiasco: “ In Granada, Tony Adams’ training sessions were unlike anything. He wasn’t a bad guy, but he made us do things… Nobody understood anything. He must have stayed in the 1980s », indicates the former left-hander of theASSEwho therefore left Granada in the summer of 2017 to return to Ligue 1, alongside Guingamp.