The two http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Olympique-de-Marseille-c40127 teammates were involved in a heated argument in a training session and could have come to blows had Elie Baup not intervened
Sometimes, it takes just a little flame to ignite a wardrobe for enmities to surface. Yesterday, after 30 minutes of training at the http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Robert-c31222 Louis-Dreyfus training centre, new Olympique de Marseille coach, Elie Baup saw first-hand what he was dealing with.
The former Toulouse coach had to intervene when Andre Ayew and http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Mathieu-Valbuena-c24690 started fighting following a rather over-zealous tackle by Ayew. Had the coach not arrived on the scene, the duo could have come to blows meaning, that OM were just a few blows
away from a total PR disaster.
The tackle was a crunching one and Valbuena could have suffered an injury. Tonight, Les Phoceens play in the third qualifying round of the Europa League and thankfully, the http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/France-c2899 international is expected to start the game.
However, the incident does have some impact according to various French sources. At the end of a forgettable training session, Mathieu Valbuena and several Marseille players, criticised Ayew for not apologising to his teammate for a bad foul that could have
seriously injured the midfielder.
What makes matter even worse is the fact that Ayew’s younger brother, Jordan, intervened in a virulent fashion which further angered some of the senior members of the squad. The young striker has not really impressed his teammates with his antics at all.
Indeed, it was him who had angered France international http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Jordan-c2929
has further agitated his teammates because of his strong character and his habit of putting his personal ambitions well above anything else.
With the new campaign set to start later this month, Olympique de Marseille would have done well without this whole scenario which surely puts a lot of question marks on the team’s unity and on Baup’s ability to deal with a squad that performed below par
last season.
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