The Olympique Marseille Transfer Thread

So is Andres Mendoza coming in from Metalurg Donetsk?

 

Marseille are really in trouble. They arent as good as Lyon, PSG, Monaco and even Toulouse right now. Their]s still time to sign some players but if the season started tommorrow they would not be a favorite to finish in the top 3. All the above mentioned teams have made better signings thjs offseason so far and OM also lost key players like Pedretti and Costa and replaced them with Oruma and Ribery but thats not improving your team thats like starting over again. I mean Niang and Lyunindula as your starting striking duo ? Thats not that great for a club of their stature.

 

Yeah Flamini left on bad terms, that's an understatement. I think OM and Arsenal are still in litigation over his case. He left OM after coming through the youth system and before he signed his first professional contract. This is the cause of the conflict. OM feels that they deserve some compensation being that they "formed" him and he left for no transfer money. He was pretty solid the one season that he played in Marseille first team. Not spectacular, but a hard working defensive holding mid.

Nasri has a lot of potential. A real #10 type. Still very young though, I think 17 years old. Hope OM can keep him a while.

 

Camel Meriem joined AS Monaco

Monaco have paid €6.5 million to get him.

I prefer not to comment.

 

So we got Niang, Mendoza and Lamouchi....
Whoa= nuff said

 

15/07/05 - Transferts
Andre Luis Garcia lent for one year to OM
Benfica Bresilian defensor ANdre Luis Garcia is lent for one season to OM. Presentation of a big deal for opponents.

In 2001-2002, Andre Luis Moreira used to play with Olympique Marseilles before joining PSG. Today Andre Luis Garcia is lent for a season with an option by Benfica to OM. He will play with the number two on his shirt.

«He has the typical defensor profile according to his coach Jean Fernandez : he is good in one to one and in the head game. He is charismatic and technical also. He used to « play », with Benfica last year but he only played one match. « As for Fernandez he is not physically ready He stopped for one month and didn’t play last year. It always takes more time for big players like him to get ready.

This huge central defensor (86kgs for 1m92) is recommanded by the legendary Carlos Mozer, player of Santos, the winner team of the Bresil Cup in 2002 and 2004. A team composed of gifted players like Diego, Robinho or Alex, who used to play with Eindhoven and who was one of the two highlights with Andre Luis in the sicilian team.

International auriverde two times, his coming to Lisbonne to remplace Tito leaving for Italy. Finnaly he stayed at Luz, Andre Luis can remplace his compatriot on the ground. Today he comes to OM for a one season lending

 

The 2005-2006 Team:

goalkeepers
1 Cédric Carrasso renturn from a lent (guinguamp)
16 Fabien Barthez
30 Raïs M'Bolhi (former youg team player)

Defenders
2 Andre Luis ( lent from benfica)
3 Taye Ismaila Taiwo
4 Demetrius Ferreira
5 Frédéric Déhu
12 Abdoulaye Méïté
19 Khalifa Elhadj Ba
21 Alain Cantareil
23 Habib Beye
27 Koji Nakata
28 Leyti N'Diaye

Mildfielders
6 José Delfim
8 Wilson Oruma ( came from siochaux, free from any contract)
13 Ahmed Yahiaoui
14 Sabri Lamouchi (resigned his contract with inter milan)
15 Salomon Olembe
20 Laurent Batlles
22 Samir Nasri
25 Sylvain N'Diaye

Attackers
7 Franck Ribéry ( resigned his contract with galatasaray)
9 Rahmane Barry
10 "Koke"
11 Mamadou Niang (bought to strasbourg)
17 Andres Mendoza (from Metallurg Donetsk (Ukraine))
18 Péguy Luyindula
26 Habib Bamogo
29 Karim Dahou

 

I still cant understand why we went after Lamouchi. I enjoyed watching him at Auxerre, but that was ten years ago!

 

He is the best that we could do to replace Pedretti. Honestly, we need him, even if he isn't so young.

 

Now that both Pedretti and Costa went away, Marseille need central midfielders.. Lamouchi was an inevitable signing. Besides, he was in good form last season with Genoa.

 

Isn't Lamouchi like 35 though???

 

Celtic say Marseille bid for defender Bobo Balde is dead.



well, I say that when you are looking for a good palyer, never ever look at the scotch league.

 

Hopefully we can get Ljuboja now, cuz I think Diouf said it was either Balde or Ljuboja.

 

We need a defender so badly rather than a striker. Aslo if we need a striker, I don't think that Ljuboja would be a good choice.

 

Well I'm just telling you what the press said.
I agree we need defenders, I just pointed out what the press was saying.

 

Despite losing the 1st two games in the league and not scoring a goal in either one??

 

After we play Lyon we'll probably be at three losses and no goals...