Coach Jorge Sampaoli was not satisfied with the amount of money preparing for the transfers this summer, but also with the timing of the new arrivals so he decided to part ways with Marseille. But the French giants have been busy since, with two players already signed (Luis Suarez from Grenada and Chancel Mbemba from Porto) and three coming along very soon. And with Isaak Toure from Le Havre and Samuel Gigot (signed in January) already in the team, new coach Igor Tudor has as much support as possible from president Pablo Longoria.Jonathan Clauss at both ends in Ligue 1 21/22:Most interceptions:🇫🇷 114 | Aurélien Tchouaméni (Mon.) 🇲🇦 103 | Yunis Abdelhamid (Reims)🇫🇷102 | Jonathan Clauss (Lens)Most key passes:🇫🇷 121 | Ben Bourigeaud (Ren.)🇫🇷 101 | Dimitri Payet (OM)🇫🇷 76 | Jonathan Clauss (Lens)— Get French Football News (@GFFN) July 19, 2022 But it won’t end there. Olympique is already negotiating with three more players: Jonathan Clauss, Ruben Blanco and Jordan Veretout. President Longoria confirmed today at the press conference that a deal has been agreed for Blanco and Clauss with Celta Vigo and Lens, while they are still negotiating with Roma over Veretout. “We have an agreement in principle with Lens for Jonathan Clauss, he is traveling to Marseille. Ruben Blanco was in the United States with Celta Vigo and he is traveling, we have an agreement in principle. We have discussed different player profiles in the past. We are talking about Nuno Tavares, Veretout, high-level European players who have a lot of requests. Veretout is a player from Rome, we must respect that. We will see in the next few weeks to look for a player in midfield. We are looking for a player on the left. There are conversations with a lot of players and I cannot not confirm which ones exactly” said Longoria.Congolese defender Mbemba switches peace in Porto for chaos in MarseilleAccording to L’Equipe, talks with Roma over Vertout are in an advanced stage, as Tudor sees him as a replacement for Boubacar Kamara, who signed for Aston Villa as a free agent. Marseille and Roma have a good business relationship and it is expected that they will come to terms quickly. Today’s press conference was about the new players: Samuel Gigot, Isaak Toure and Chancel Mbemba, but the player who drew the most attention was obviously Mbemba. ##NAJAVA_MECA_6516879##Former Anderlecht, Newcastle and Porto defender, who came instead of William Saliba, who came back to Arsenal is always interesting, simply because every time he changes clubs, journalists are trying to find out his real age, which is something even FIFA tried and gave up. According to RMC Sports FIFA opened an investigation in 2013 in order to clarify his age, and in that point in time, he was playing in Belgium and Anderlecht claimed he was born in 1994. But in his first licenses, signed in the clubs of La Grace and AS Mputu, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, indicate that he was born in 1988. Later, during a qualifying match for the African Cup of Nations in June 2011, his Federation time assured that he was born on November 30, 1991. To complicate the situation a little more, certain interviews with Mbemba reappeared in which he says he was born in 1990. A court in Kinshasa validated his date of birth as August 8, 1994, and FIFA indicated they would close the case, but the situation still remains murky.
