Marseille are panicking about the future of Jordan Amavi with the Crystal Palace target due to become a free agent at the end of this season, as reported by L’Equipe.
Florian Thauvin is not the only L’OM star who has just a few months left on his contract.
And while speculation surrounding the future of the 2018 World Cup winner, Marseille’s most gifted and influential attacker, has understandably dominated the headlines across the Channel, Amavi would also represent a massive loss for the Ligue 1 high flyers.
The Mail reports that Crystal Palace are keen on the swashbuckling left-back, who joined Marseille in a £9 million deal after a spell at Aston Villa.
Amavi is one of many left-sided defenders linked with a move to Selhurst Park as Palace seemingly prepare for life after Patrick Van Aanholt.
With the January window just three weeks away, Marseille are sweating.
Unless a new contract can be agreed, the winter window will represent the last chance Marseille have to sell one of their star players before his contract expires.
L’Equipe claims that Amavi’s agent has asked for a pay rise on his current £30,000-a-week deal. L’OM cannot afford to agree to those demands, however, having been hit hard by an ongoing financial crisis affecting almost the whole of European football.
“Amavi is one of the players who has improved the most. He has a great frame of mind,” Marseille coach Andre Villas-Boas told La Provence recently.
“Pablo (Longoria, Marseille’s director of football) speaks with his entourage for the possibility of him (signing a new contract).
“I hope that it will be done and that there will be an agreement between the two parties. We are counting on him.”
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