This summer, French Ligue 1 clubs Olympique de Marseille will have to strike very hard to legitimize their new project. A great striker is evoked with insistence, but Marseille are very interested in Chelsea’s Cesc Fabregas ans Arsenal’s Laurent Koscielny.
Marseille are currently at 6th in the Ligue 1 table with 55 points from 35 games played this season and will seek to recruit a repute to embody their project, the defensive sector will be a real building site for the Olympians.
According to the report, Arsenal defender Laurent Koscielny has indeed been contacted by Marseille. On this rumor, Marseille would have big competitor since the Premier League clubs Manchester City would also be on the lookout for Koscielny.
The 31-year-old joined Arsenal since 2010 with 10.6 million pounds. He already signed the new contract in last January, which makes him to stay at Emirates until 2020. Koscielny is the strength of the Gunners’ defence but behaves in the same way failure to win the title, the Premier League being the most one, the possible of winning major honours could make him departure from Arsenal.
At the same time, Marseille would pursue another dream to sign Cesc Fabregas. Lose his ground on the side of Chelsea, the midfielder has been linked to AC Milan, Chinese Super League clubs, but also Marseille according to the report.
Cesc Fabregas has struggled for playing time this season at Stamford Bridge, but largely impressed each time he was called into action. Having seen his playing time at the Blues cut this season, Marselile new sporting director Andoni Zubizarreta wants a reunion with Fabregas in French Ligue 1 next season. Zubizarreta worked with Fabregas at Barcelona couple years ago.
Olympique de Marseille have to spend much money to add their two or three new players this summer. (Source:www.gettyimages.com)
Olympique de Marseille are tardily however consistently building a strong side capable of challenging for the titles with recent addition players former West Ham star Dimitri Payet and former Patrice Evra. Despite everything, this track promises to be very complicated for Marseille, due to the possible competition of teams rivaling the Champions League. Although Koscielny and Fabregas will be extremely difficult targets, Marseille will not forbid anything and it is also the sign of their new high ambitions.
