The Marseille Story

2016-07-09 12:35#235067 ML Scouter :

2016-07-09 10:29#235066 L0rdArt : Nice story, as a Marseille fan I will follow it!
I'm also playing with Marseille, so I will be watching your work there

Thank you, I chose Marseille because I hated to watching them struggle last season especially the Marseille 2-5 Rennes and all the sales this summer.

I was at the stadium every week-end, it was hard...

But you can win Ligue 1 the first year, that's nice!

Here are the other active leagues

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In Ligue 2 Stade de Reims and Gazelec Ajaccio have come straight back up but the final relegated team from last season was Troyes and they finished 5th. Red Star FC the team who finished 5th the previous season came third to win their second promotion in three years.

In the French National Evian, Créteil and Paris FC have all won back promotion to Ligue 2 having been the three relegated last season.


Updates on the Ligue 1 final day later

Dijon VS Marseille Referee- Amaury Delerue

Key moments in the match
1st half
7’ No chances from either side it’s just that Harnik looks like he is struggling a bit
8’ Substitution Harnik off for Cabella
There has been a GOAL at the Stade Pierre-Mauroy for PSG Edinson Cavani
Lille 0-1 PSG as it stands PSG are winning the league on 78 points to Marseille’s 77
17’ Hiroki Sakai shown a yellow card by Amaury Delerue for a trip on Bernard of Dijon a bit harsh but he needs to be careful now
20’ Volley by Sissoko is saved by Reynet, on his weak foot great effort great save
27’ Another save from a Sissoko shot great keeping again from Reynet
28’ Header from Rolando is saved
31’ Riviere is through on goal, GOAL FOR DIJON! Ruled out for offside. That was a late flag
36’ Amaury Delerue shows the yellow card to Bernard, definite yellow after a foul on Cabella
39’ Alaixys Romao is lectured by the referee for a foul on Marie but no card
HT There was two minutes of injury time but no chances for either side
PSG are still winning 1-0 which means Marseille have to score
2nd half
45’ Dijon kick off but give it away with a hopeful long ball Marseille bring it forward Sissoko to Sakai who takes it down the line delivers a lovely cross to the head of Alessandrini his header hits the top of the bar and goes for a goal kick. Great play from Marseille but they need a goal.
56’ Romao gets a yellow card for a trip
GOAL! Lille 0-2 PSG Lucas Moura gets Paris’s second, with around half an hour left you can’t see Lille coming back so it’s down to Marseille
The news of that goal has travelled to the Marseille fans here and they are really starting to make some noise
73’ Substitution for Dijon Varrault off receives a great applause for Mane
74’ Substitution for Marseille this time Romao makes way for Leandro a striker Sommer pushing for the much needed goal taking the captain off so Bedimo gets the armband
75’ Sertic plays a wonderful ball to Alessandrini who has plenty of time tries the volley but just wide from a tight angle
77’ Sertic has a chance himself from distance but misses by some distance
77’ Counter attack by Marseille Soriano passes through to Sissoko who finds Alessandrini first time, but the assistant raises his flag for offside
79’ Souquet is shown the yellow card
Not long now for Marseille and PSG are still 2-0 up it’s looking more and more likely that they will take the title, there has been no clear chances today both sides are defending well
84’ Substitution for both sides Dijon- Bamba off for Arrondel Marseille- Diaby takes the field for Sertic
GOAL! Lille are back in it Eder scores Lille 1-2 PSG
89’ Sakai throws the ball into Cabella who runs down the wing for a cross which hits off the defender for a corner
89’ Cabella floats the ball into the box from the corner towards Gouano who clears, but it has fallen to Sissoko who hits it GOOOAAALLLLLLLL! SISSOKO HAS SCORED FOR MARSEILLE WHAT A STRIKE SURELY HE HAS WON IT FOR THEM NOW AND PSG CAN DO NOTHING ABOUT IT!
There will be 3 minutes of injury time, can Marseille hold on
94’ Sissoko to Diaby plays it to Alessandrini who then loses it to Marie but THE REF BLOWS FOR FULL TIME!
FT MARSEILLE HAVE WON LIGUE 1! For the first time in 6 years

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Mathias Sommer: “I am absolutely delighted to have won Ligue 1 with Marseille I didn’t even expect that we could achieved this in one year two trophies to add to the collection feels good, the only disappointment was the French cup and leaving it to the last minute to win today I was so nervous.
It is great for the club to be back in European football, we will rest now and try and retain this 10th Ligue 1 title next season.
Finally, I want to thank the fans they have been brilliant all year and even stuck by us while we were going through a rough patch later on in the season, we couldn’t have done it without them and I’m glad that the Stade Veledrome will have Champions league football again.


French cup Final

Paris Saint Germain 1-0 Bordeaux Hakim Ziyech wins it for PSG who have now won it three times in a row.

Nice! You won the title in the last minutes, amazing! Imagine all the city going crazy right now!

Well done on the title mate, keep it going

L0rdArt: Thanks, I thought we were going to throw the title away after dominating for most of the season. The whole of Marseille would be buzzing.

BeanyUnited: Cheers, I will do mate

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Marseille Transfers-

Transfers in-
Vedran Corluka and Jeremy Mathieu were signed in January to put pressure on Doria and Rolando. The Brazilian striker Leandro was our only over striker behind our star man Soriano so Yussuf Poulson was signed for 10m from RB Leipzig. Mouez Hassen was signed in January for free but arrived this summer. Franck Beria was also signed in January as a backup full back who can play both sides. Andrija Zivkovic we managed to sign on a free transfer. Left back Miguel Layun from Porto was signed for 12m plus the loan of Henri Bedimo who is starting to decrease due to his age. Morgan Sanson was signed from rivals Montpellier for 10.75m, GK Pele and Karim Rekik on loan who would find it hard to get into the starting line-up with our current centre halves. Then Ante Coric a young midfielder signed from Dinamo Zagreb for 13.5m. The last transfer in was Lucas Lima linked to Real Madrid and other top clubs over the last couple of years we were scouting him at the beginning of last season he signed for just 16m.
Transfers out-
Only 4 players went this summer for a transfer fee- Doria- AC Milan for 21.5m good young centre back but needed to balance the books and wouldn’t be playing regularly. Andre Martins- signed last summer for around 1.4m from Sporting, then went out on loan in January sold to Freiburg for 1.4m. Bouna Sarr to Stade Rennais for 1.2m at 24 years old he wasn’t getting enough game time so good move for him. Finally, Remy Cabella to Bayern for his release cause of just 6m wanted to keep the super sub of last season but couldn’t offer him what he wanted first team football, so you go to Bayern right?

Champions League Group F

MARSEILLE
CELTIC
BAYER LEVERKUSEN
AJAX


1st Round Celtic 3-3 Marseille
Moussa Sissoko 30', pen 35', Harnik 44', Stevie May 62', 73', 82'

1st round Ajax 0-0 Bayer Leverkusen

Great job winning the league. Great achievement. Also some good looking transfers, hope you can have some more success this year

2016-07-14 11:23#235255 ninjaskill : Great job winning the league. Great achievement. Also some good looking transfers, hope you can have some more success this year

Thanks a lot, I don't know if we might have over spent on some of the new players but it's going okay.

Zivkovic and Coric are realy good transfers! Hassen can be a good keeper, but you will need a better one in the next years to fight in the CL.

Your team is growing well.

L0rdArt: Well I have Benoit Costil who was brilliant last season I signed him last summer for 6.75 million and he's 29 so a good age for a keeper. I am finding it hard to think of any players that could strengthen this starting 11.

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So after 12 games it's not looking too good in the league with 4 losses already. But we were trailing PSG last season and we can do it again. They are still unbeaten.

The Champions League Group Stages have ended here they are so you can see who has qualified for the next round.
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