Posted on December 19, 2021 at 2:10 pm by AM
Long announced in the sights of OM, M'Baye Niang had finally never joined the Marseille club. And the former Rennais returns to this aborted transfer.
Since the arrival of Frank McCourt at OM , the priority of the Marseille club has It has long been to recruit a center-forward, and it is not the arrivals of Kostas Mitroglou and Valère Germain in 2017 that have reversed the trend. Therefore, Andoni Zubizarreta notably tried to recruit M'Baye Niang. This issue quickly became a soap opera which saw the Senegalese international push to leave Stade Rennais and join OM during the summer of 2020. In vain. An aborted transfer which he returned to in an interview with Sud-Ouest.
“I had a discussion with Zubizarreta”
“This episode broke something. I did not hide. The least he could do was tell the truth, not sneak out, so the club had time to turn around. Some people told me that Rennes was playing in the Champions League, but I wasn't leaving because Rennes sucked. I've always wanted to play in Marseille, I've always said so. I felt this was the moment for me. I had a discussion with Zubizarreta, the sports director. When it didn't happen, for X or Y reasons, I felt that in Rennes, people no longer looked at me in the same way. It didn't bother me at first, I replayed, but in January I felt it was the end. I no longer had the flame, ”he confides.