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By attracting Adrien Rabiot, Olympique de Marseille has proven its ambition on the transfer market. But the former Parisian was not the only French international targeted…

Launched as a TGV in this new 2024-25 season, theMarseille Olympic has every intention of restoring its image on a national scale. And for this, the Marseille club pulled out all the stops by being extremely active during the last summer transfer window.

The late arrival of Adrien Rabiot confirmed the high ambitions of Olympique de Marseille, who are now at the top of Ligue 1 with the same number of points as Paris Saint-Germain and AS Monaco. But it must be believed that Rabiot was not the only French international in OM's sights.

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The newspaper L'Équipe indeed indicated this week that Olympique de Marseille had tried to secure the services of… Benjamin Mendy. The French daily specifies that this pronounced interest in the 2018 world champion was manifested in the winter of 2024, during the January window.

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Benjamin Mendy, then a player at FC Lorient, was unable to sign up for OM. As a reminder, the left-back spent three years in Marseille, between 2013 and 2016. According to the specialized media La Minute OM, it was Gennaro Gattuso who was at the origin of this file.

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