Jean Onana at Olympique de Marseille, it’s done. As revealed by the renowned journalist Fabrizio Romano, then confirmed by L’Équipe and Foot Mercato, the 23-year-old Cameroonian midfielder will be loaned with an option to purchase by Besiktas. Having passed through Lille, Bordeaux and Lens, who sold him for €4 million last summer, Onana is expected on Monday for his medical examination, specifies RMC Sport. OM had first targeted Lucien Agoumé, a young Frenchman from Inter Milan who is heading instead to Sevilla FC.
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This week, we learned that RC Lens was tracking David Jurasek, a failure at Benfica who recruited him for €14 million last summer. The Portuguese daily Record reports that SLB wants to lend its 23-year-old left-back and Czech international, and Marseille would also be in the running. The newspaper A Bola even speaks of a Marseille offer already on the table. Italian and Spanish clubs would also be on the lookout. OM, 6th in Ligue 1, would see in Jurasek an alternative to Renan Lodi, the only professional left-back in the squad.
Bought for €18 million from Stuttgart in the summer of 2022, Sasa Kalajdzic did not win in Wolverhampton. The 26-year-old striker, an Austrian international, has contented himself with 2 goals in 11 matches including a start in the Premier League this season. He is loaned without purchase option to Eintracht Frankfurt, 6th in the Bundesliga and involved in the Europa Conference League.
Promising in Angers, Mohamed-Ali Cho joined Real Sociedad in 2022 for €11 million. He never found his feet in the Basque Country, playing 16 matches including 3 as a starter this season. “La Real is in very advanced discussions for the departure of Mohamed-Ali Cho,” declared this Sunday the future opponent of PSG in the round of 16 of the Champions League. Cho, a 19-year-old French striker and international hopeful, is not traveling with his team to Malaga for a Copa del Rey match this Sunday evening (9 p.m.).
