OM: Longoria is aiming for a very specific profile for the transfer window!

If Olympique de Marseille is still in the fight for 2nd place in Ligue 1 with Lens (2nd), even 1st with PSG, the Marseille club has already turned to the summer transfer window of 2023.

OM, which recruited Portuguese striker Vitinha this winter for the tidy sum of 32 million euros, could lose Alexis Sanchez at the end of the season. The 34-year-old Chilean, “happy” at OM, but who hopes “winning titles” next year, could leave at the end of his contract this summer.

Especially since an Argentine club, River Plate, could recover it, according to Javier Saviola. In an interview at Redgoalthe former striker of River Plate and Barça indeed dreams of seeing Alexis Sanchez “return to the institution” where the striker has already passed during the 2007-2008 season. Not sure, however, that the striker is open to the idea of ​​going to Argentina, leaving Europe.

Experienced profiles targeted by OM

OM may therefore have to recruit an additional striker next summer. But the Marseille club will above all have to make up for a big deficit in the workforce, pointed out by Pablo Longoria. On RMCthe journalist Florent Germain made a revelation on the subject: “The leaders of OM believe that in this OM, there are not enough leaders, there is not enough character to perhaps support the big atmosphere of pressure matches. This is one of the major parameters that will guide recruitment this summer. We are convinced within the club that to continue to instil the culture of winning, we need players who have the necessary charisma. Elements that can take on the pressure of a club like OM”.

Alexis Sanchez, 34, passed by Arsenal, Inter or FC Barcelona, ​​seems to be one, and the Chilean will have to be convinced to stay. On the other hand, Enzo Le Fée, who wants to leave Lorient, had been mentioned for a time at OM, and seems to have difficulty fitting this profile of a player under strong pressure. Eric Bailly, another experienced player, should leave, unlike Dimitri Payet or Sead Kolasinac.