Lucho Gonzalez never wanted to leave http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Olympique-de-Marseille-c40127 – Ligue 1 news
French Ligue 1 giants Olympique de Marseille star Lucho Gonzalez has said that he never wanted to leave the Rhone giants following months of speculation linking the 30-year-old with a move away from the Stade Velodrome.
The Argentine international was bought by Marseille in the summer of 2009 from http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/FC-Porto-c39186 for a fee believed to be in the region of 18 million Euros. However, following the club’s new strategy to cut down the burden on the payroll, Gonzalez was one of those
players rumoured to be on the transfer list.
The start of the summer transfer window saw Gonzalez linked with a move to Spanish La Liga side Malaga. However, Marseille’s insistence on not selling Gonzalez for less than 13 million Euros forced the Andalucian side to look elsewhere in the transfer market
and the Spaniards brought http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Olympique-Lyonnais-c40130.
Italian Serie A giants AS http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Roma-c31603 were also linked with a move for the influential playmaker but a move never materialized.
Despite media speculation, Marseille chose to keep hold of their star player despite their economic conditions. Gonzalez has now come out in the open and has declared his love for the club and has said that he never wanted to leave OM.
In the final days of this summer’s transfer window, Gonzalez was heavily linked with a move to English Premier League side http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Arsenal-c38429. While talking about a potential move to the London-based club, Gonzalez said, “the possibility to play for Arsenal came u
and that’s an honour for any player, especially for a player the wrong side of 30. but in the end there was no agreement and they decided to take a younger player that they could re-sell afterwards.”
Gonzalez was a key figure in the Marseille side that won the Ligue 1 championelle in the 2009/2010 campaign. Marseille also won the Coupe de la Ligue in that campaign and repeated the cup victory last season as well n which Gonzalez impressed a lot.
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