Mercato | Mercato – OM: Zubizarreta is in the niche to keep this nugget of OM!

Posted on October 12, 2019 at 4:45 pm by T.M.

This Friday, Simon Ngapandouetnbu signed his first pro contract with OM. And the 16-year-old goalkeeper could especially say thank you to Andoni Zubizarreta.

These past seasons, theOM has struggled to bring out talents from his training center. A trend that is beginning to reverse with the explosion of Maxime Lopez and Boubacar Kamara. Behind the two Marseillais, other nuggets also point the tip of their nose likeIsaac Lihadji or Lucas Perrin. And it may not be over. Indeed, on the side of theOM, we seem to trust Simon Ngapandouetnbu, who has just signed his first pro contract. The 16-year-old doorman would obviously have caught the eye of Andoni Zubizarreta.

Zubizarreta opposed the departure of Ngapandouetnbu

This Saturday, The Team discusses the difficulties of Simon Ngapandouetnbu at the training center of theOM. The Marseille goalkeeper had found himself at the heart of a huge controversy, having stolen the bank cards of some of his teammates. A serious fault that theOM sanctions only with a one-year exclusion of the pensioner from the training center. However, Jean-Luc Cassini, director of the center, wanted to fire him Ngapandouetnbu, without notice. A choice that opposed Andoni Zubizarreta. As the sports daily explains, the Marseille sports director has thus come to defend, justifying his position with the fact that in the future, the player could be worth several million euros.