What about Maxime Lopez’s future? One thing is certain, the former OM player wants to leave this summer, after three seasons with the “very good club” that is Sassuolo, 13th in the Serie A standings. “I think the time has come to me to go and see a little higher”, he underlines for Le Média Carré, he who is said to be courted by his former coach in Marseille, Rudi Garcia, recently appointed head of Naples. An interest that obviously did not escape the interested party… “I am very well in Italy, I like the country a lot, there are quite a few top clubs here… It would be the best to go to one of these clubs”, he slips, before adding, mischievously: “There is a team in the south of Italy that I like (smile). It looks a lot like Marseille. That’s all I like in a club, I was born with that, I was used to that.
Last winter, the English club Brighton tried their luck. In vain. And this summer? “England? It’s not up to me. If the coach (Roberto) De Zerbi calls me, of course, we will discuss seriously”, loose Maxime Lopez, who evolved under the orders of the Italian technician in Sassuolo during the 2020-21 campaign.
And there is OM. Not quite a late news track, but something that will always be on the 25-year-old’s mind. “To be honest, sometimes I think about it… But I’m like, ‘Is this a good thing?’ Coming back, I would love it. But you don’t have to come back to come back. So there you go, I don’t know, I’m a little mixed on OM, it will remain my favorite club, but afterwards, there you go… In addition, they took on the Spanish coach (Marcelino, editor’s note), this n isn’t bad either. To see, I don’t know,” he said. Lopez is under contract until 2025, he who has played 150 matches with OM and 98 under the colors of Sassuolo.
