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Dimitri Payet announced his return to OM this Monday.
Dimitri Payet has a lot of ideas. Pushed towards the exit at the end of the 2022-2023 season, number 10 has never lost sight of OM, his favorite club, the one whose colors he defended for eight years and for which he consented financial sacrifices several times in his career.
Invited to speak on the L’Equipe channel this Monday, the 37-year-old from Reunion Island was clear about his intentions. “
My last season in Marseille was difficult personally. As captain, I did what I had to do: a captain must think of others before himself. I took care of others. There will be a return to the club, after which we will discuss more details. I want to help, be useful, help continue to grow OM. »
Longoria’s promise
Dimitri Payet, not resentful towards the current management and rid of a coach with whom he hardly got along – Igor Tudor – insists: “ It’s signed, there will be a return! » In the summer of 2023, while the playmaker announced his departure from the club in tears, Pablo Longoria himself confided that this Phocaean at heart still had a future at OM. “ It’s not a goodbye, it’s a “see you soon”. The club doors are wide open. (…) OM is your home, it’s your home », Says the Spanish leader.
Under contract with the Brazilian club Vasco da Gama until June 2025, Dimitri Payet does not yet know if he will hang up his boots at the end of this experience. But he knows that he can assert his Olympian contract whenever he wants. for life »signed in 2020 to implement a salary reduction then necessary for the Provençal club. A year ago, the former French international had already affirmed that his future lay with Marseille: “ My retraining at the club is planned, normally, when I retire from sport, but not necessarily in 2025. It will be decided at the end of my career. »
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