Monday’s edition of L’Equipe reports Marseille need sales before even contemplating signing players this summer.
The club’s president Jacques-Henri Eyraud has recently been saying, both in public and private, that stars won’t be sold off, but L’Equipe dismiss that and point to Marseille’s ongoing battles with finance.
As has been the case for some time, when the French club want to sell a player they look first to the Premier League market. They’ve taken on officials to concentrate solely on this, as it’s believed English clubs pay the best transfer fees.
But even so, Everton may not be willing to take the bait. Zahavi and Paul Aldridge may be able to bend the arms of clubs like West Ham over transfers, however, they’d surely not find it so easy to oversell a player to Marcel Brands and Everton.
Maybe Newcastle United would be a better target.