Michaël Cuisance was loaned with an option to buy to OM by Bayern Munich.

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  • Olympique de Marseille recorded the arrival of Michaël Cuisance from Bayern Munich, Bouna Sarr made the opposite trip.

  • OM failed to compensate for the departure of Bouna Sarr with the failed transfer of Joakim Mahele.

  • According to Rolland Courbis the workforce is a little tight for the Champions League, but a new tactical organization could offer new possibilities to André Villas Boas.

The soufflé has fallen a bit.

The transfer window of Olympique de Marseille ended Monday night with a miss, with the aborted transfer of side-defender Joakim Maehle, from Genk.

Until the very last moments of the transfer window, this 23-year-old Danish defender was expected in Marseille to fill the departure of Bouna Sarr at Bayern Munich for 10 million euros.

If the negotiations revolved around a paying loan of 2 million euros with an option to buy at 8 million euros, the club of Genk would have been much too greedy late Monday night, asking for no less 15 million euros.

But for Bob Faesen, journalist at

Het Belang van Limburg

, and follower of the Genk club, this turnaround is not so surprising.

The explanation could be more sporting than financial.

“OM offered around 10 million but the Genk club does not necessarily need the money, it is one of the richest clubs in Belgium.

Their start to the season was disastrous, the coach was fired and Maehle became captain.

He's one of the last players who got the title in 2019, there was a lot of pressure from the supporters so I think that's more what played.

After if there had been an exceptional offer… ”, he confides.

The loan of the other side of the club, Casper De Norre, to Louvain, was only effective at midnight, proof that everything was still possible for Joakim Maehle at OM.

"A little inflamed"

The arrival of the 21-year-old Frenchman Michaël Cuisance, from Bayern Munich, but also the departures of Bouna Sarr who went the other way, and of Maxime Lopez to Sassuolo in Serie A, satisfied the supporters on the active transfer window of Pablo Longoria, the new football director of OM.

But that was without counting the disappointment Joakim Mahele.

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"Maybe I got a little inflamed, procrastinates Najet Rami afterwards.

But I still liked having this impression that the files were well done.

When Sarr left we already had leads, after that happens in football this kind of last minute turnaround.

Unfortunately it is not replaced, which makes me say that this transfer window is incomplete.

But hits like Balerdi, Cuisance and Gueye, Zubizaretta never did.

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"The transfer window is not over"

If Najet Rami considers this transfer window as incomplete, Rolland Courbis, former coach of OM believes that "the transfer window is not over".

OM should turn to a joker in defense to compensate for the departure of Sarr.

"I think it's quite possible to find a good understudy in Sakai," he says.

Difficult for him to compare the transfer window carried out by Longoria this year, to that of Zubizaretta last year, criticized for not being more present.

“Bringing in Alvaro [Gonzalez], Rongier and Benedetto is still not bad,” he recalls.

He was still pleasantly surprised by the good Cuisance move, the real good news from OM for the end of the transfer window.

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There remains the thorny issue of departures while neither Zubizaretta nor Longoria managed to get rid of Strootman, Mitrouglou and even Germain.

“I could blame him for a lot of things, but at least Vincent Labrune [former OM predict] knew how to sell,” tackle Najet Rami.

Therefore, difficult to recruit another number 9 to replace Dario Benedetto, struggling since the start of the season.

"It may be complicated for the Champions League"

If Villas Boas worked with a group of 13 or 14 players the previous season, it ended after 28 games and without European competition.

“There is a framework of six, seven, even eight players which is interesting, OM has strengthened quantitatively.

After that may be complicated for the Champions League, even if their group is not impossible ", considers Rolland Courbis facing a" crazy schedule ".

For him the solution is already in the workforce "For me the 9 or 9 and a half, they already have it with Germain.

We often say "we don't change a winning team", but I think André Villas Boas must have a second organization by aligning Germain with Benedetto.

And Payet can also play in support of Benedetto.

OM can play with an attacking quartet and return to three midfielders at the end of the match, for example, ”said coach Courbis.

“It's good to have competition in the middle, Sanson, Rongier and even Kamara are not at the level.

But for me the workforce is not cut out for the Champions League.

It will absolutely be necessary to be regular in the league if we still want to qualify for the Champions League, ”said Najet Rami.

Clubs like Lille and Rennes, just behind OM in the standings last season, did not hesitate to drop millions to strengthen significantly.

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