Ben Chilwell, Amad Diallo & Adrien Rabiot (Photos by Ryan Pierse, Steve Bardens & Alessandro Sabattini/Getty Images)
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The market is still busy as we can see with some free agents, and one major update is we can now officially say that Adrien Rabiot is a new Marseille player. It’s another big signing for Roberto de Zerbi in this ambitious Marseille project, and he was involved in this deal, making the impossible possible.
As was widely reported throughout the summer, Rabiot also had other suitors. There were big, very big proposals from Turkey and Saudi but he only wanted to play in one of the European top leagues.
The Premier League was his dream but his salary requests were considered too expensive. OM have been excellent at working behind the scenes and getting it done for a reduced salary, convincing Rabiot of their project. They worked hard behind the scenes and now he’s a Marseille player on a two-year contract.
I keep getting a lot of questions about Liverpool and their situation with three star players – Mohamed Salah, Trent Alexander-Arnold and Virgil van Dijk – all out of contract at Anfield in 2025.
I can guarantee that for all three players the situation is the same, and that is that their priority is Liverpool, and conversations will follow. Let’s be patient and respect the parties negotiating and the timing of it all. There will be negotiations and then we’ll see what happens, but for now I can guarantee that nothing has been decided on Liverpool’s side or on the players’ side, they are still taking their time.
As I said in March earlier this year, Real Madrid keep following the situation of Alexander-Arnold, but this is very normal. Real Madrid are always…
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