Marcus Thuram too expensive for OM

At the end of his contract on June 30, Marcus Thuram will leave Borussia Monchengladbach this summer to join a big European club. According to the latest echoes of the German press, it will be neither Bayern Munich nor Chelsea, which are not or no longer interested. And OM?

The 2022 World Cup runner-up, who had already been courted by OM when he left Guingamp in 2019, has indeed been followed by the French club in recent months and the rumor has returned in force in recent hours after his father Lilian was spotted Tuesday at the Commanderie.

According to RMC Sport, Lilian Thuram was indeed at the training center of OM on Tuesday, but not to negotiate a future arrival of his son Marcus in Marseille. According to the radio, the 98 world champion was in Marseille and was invited to lunch by his old friend Igor Tudor, with whom he played at Juventus in the early 2000s.

OM does not have the money for Marcus Thuram

The OM has assured the correspondent in Marseille of RMC that the club simply did not have the money to attract Marcus Thuram, even though he will be free this summer. Financially and in terms of salary, it would not be within the limits of OM.

On Twitter, the correspondent in Marseille of the newspaper L'Equipe reveals that Pablo Longoria had lunch in mid-February with the representative of Marcus Thuram, who also manages the interests of Amine Harit. "But they went rather on other topics of conversation. Longoria considers that Marcus Thuram, free, will go to a big European club this summer, " added Mathieu Gregoire.

Marcus Thuram est (fut) un sujet intéressant pour l’OM, qui s’était positionné l’été dernier et le suivait encore cet hiver, comme écrit dans @lequipe. Le président Pablo Longoria a encore déjeuné mi-février avec son représentant, mais… https://t.co/IczIrufTWq

— Mathieu Grégoire (@Serguei) March 16, 2023

Note that Marcus Thuram has also been linked to PSG in recent months, as well as Atletico Madrid, Manchester United and Barcelona.