Zapping But! Football Club The pre-match brief: Olympique de Marseille FC Lorient
The good news accumulates in the Pape Gueye file (22 years old). As already mentioned earlier this week, the CAS decided to suspend the sanction of the OM midfielder, who had been suspended by FIFA for four months following his aborted transfer to Watford in the summer of 2020. This decision by the TAS only concerns the player, who can therefore continue the CAN with Senegal and the Ligue 1 season afterwards with the Marseille club. The CAS will judge the merits of the case concerning the former Le Havre in the coming months.
This does not change the situation of OM, sanctioned by two transfer windows without being able to recruit from next summer. And if the club has not seized the CAS for interim measures, it is currently building a file in order to have its sanction canceled. In the worst case, that of a ban on recruiting next summer, L’Équipe understands that the sanction would not call into question the exercise of the almost automatic purchase options of Mattéo Guendouzi, Cengiz Ünder or Pau Lopez, negotiated last summer.
OM could also register the return of certain loans such as those of Jordan Amavi (OGC Nice) or Nemanja Radonjic (Benfica). On the other hand, it would be impossible to establish new contracts for players, free or not. This would put an end to the hypothesis of seeing William Saliba remain, on loan this season.
The front pages of L’Équipe newspaper for Wednesday, January 19
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to summarize
Referred to in summary proceedings, the CAS decided to suspend the sanction of Pape Gueye. The OM midfielder (22) had been suspended by FIFA for four months following his aborted transfer to Watford in the summer of 2020. That’s not all.