OM signs a “key player” to everyone’s surprise!

Free of any contract since his departure from Juventus Turin last June, Adrien Rabiot finally decided to come and launch again at OM. A somewhat surprising choice given his history with PSG, but a confirmed international arrival appears to be big news in the eyes of former OM player Mathieu Valbuena.

Against all expectations, theRIVER terminate the employment ofAdrien Rabiot (29 years old) who arrived for free and signed for two seasons with the Marseille club. The midfielder of the French team, is trained there PSGwho left the Juventus Turin last June and had been looking for a challenge to get back on track all this time. So it was OM who won with Rabiot, and Mathieu Valbuena did not hide on this topic in the Channel Football Club.

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“True Words”

« I was surprised, but in a good way. I think he is a great player to come and sign for Olympique de Marseille. If I have to summarize this choice, I found that Adrien Rabiot has a lot of personality and that’s what I like. I like people who have personality, who have confidence, who have real ‘cojones’ “, he noted Valbuena on this coming from Rabiot at theRIVER.

Valbuena and his stormy return to the Vélodrome

It must be said, as the former player at PSG, Valbuena considered a traitor since he signed itOL just a year after he leftRIVER. And he was greeted with a hanging doll in his likeness when he returned to the Vélodome in 2015: “ I didn’t see that, I saw it later. But hey, it’s Marseille. We are not in half measures. On the one hand we loved you and it is complicated, and also complicated in your new club. So you feel that you are losing everything. By making this choice, I knew I had to have a personality and take responsibility. And I think I took it from start to finish “, follow up Valbuena.