Posted on December 20, 2021 at 2:15 am by GdSS
After very close to arriving at OM in the summer of 2020, M'Baye Niang confirms his negotiations at the time with Andoni Zubizarreta and displays his regret at not having been able to join the McCourt project.
< p> While OM has long sought in vain for its famous great striker, chaining failures at this position ( Kostas Mitroglou, Valère Germain, Mario Balotelli, Dario Benedetto ) , M'Baye Niang almost landed in the Marseille club! The facts date back to the summer of 2020, when Andoni Zubizarreta was still sporting director of OM , and Niang spoke in detail about it in an interview with Sud-Ouest on Sunday.
“I've always wanted to play for OM, I've always said so”
“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, “confides M’Baye Niang , today at the Girondins de Bordeaux .