Attached to Olympique de Marseille, Dimitri Payet (37 years old) is available for a return in January 2017. The club is available for less than 30 million euros to protect the attacking midfielder. In his interview with BFM Marseille Provence, the Runionnais wanted to thank the owner Frank McCourt and especially the former president Jacques-Henri Eyraud.

“To whom do I owe my return to OM? I have a recognition that will be eternal, it is the president of OM, who at the time was Jacques-Henri Eyraud, confided the Vasco player de Gama It means: “I want you to come back and I will do whatever it takes for you to come back.” And we fought until January 28, 29, and it was hard. ‘a moment given, I said to myself that it was going to be complicated to do, he never gave up on this negotiation.

« I’m not forever let go because we talked often. And he allowed me to realize my dream of coming back and having my family come back home, and then living these incredible seasons behind… It’s This is a long-term recognition which sees President Eyraud and « Towards the shareholder, who had put his hand in his pocket. It remains a significant transfer at the time for OM. These are the two people who immediately come to mind,” concludes Payet.