Football OM – OM: Longoria in the hard, its transfer window is a total flop

Last winter, Pablo Longoria hit hard in the transfer window by recruiting Vitinha, Ounahi and Malinovskyi for a total of 50 million euros.

The supporters of Olympique de Marseille were very enthusiastic at the idea of ​​seeing their club strengthen in this way. It must be said that it is rather rare to see a Ligue 1 team invest 50 million euros on the transfer market in January. Pablo Longoria did so with the approval of Frank McCourt by recruiting Vitinha, Azzedine Ounahi and Ruslan Malinovskyi.

Unfortunately, the Portuguese striker has not yet established himself as a starter, the Moroccan World Cup semi-finalist was injured in the selection and the ex-Atalanta midfielder is for the moment a flop. Suffice to say that to date, the winter transfer window of Pablo Longoria is not a great success even if OM will perhaps bear the fruits of these recruitments next season. In an editorial published this Wednesday, Le Phocéen believes that in the end, it is the blacklisted Mattéo Guendouzi who could take advantage of Pablo Longoria’s winter flops to recover a starting spot in the last four games of the season.

Malinovskyi and Vitinha are disappointing at the moment

“Malinovskyi and Vitinha clearly don’t fit the bill at the moment. In view of the more than painful performance of the Ukrainian at Bollaert, sanctioned by a score of 1/10 on the Phocaean. Guendouzi would have deserved to enter the game much earlier. Beyond the question of merit, a change was needed. Moreover, Vitinha’s moribund latest appearance does not allow him to establish himself as a credible solution at the moment” analyzes the pro-OM media. Suffice to say that on Sunday against Angers, Igor Tudor could make very different choices and launch Mattéo Guendouzi from the start alongside Alexis Sanchez and Ünder. And too bad for the winter recruits, who do not give satisfaction… for the moment.