http://marseille.theoffside.com News from Olympique Marseilles French football team Wed, 23 Jul 2008 02:13:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A lot has happened in the last four days. Once Bakary Koné was signed from Nice, Pape Diouf told the press that the Mercato was over for us, unless some other players leave. This of course came as a surprise as many players were believed to still be on their ... http://marseille.theoffside.com/french-ligue-1/tuesday-slow-news-day.html The soap of the summer (incredibly short by other season's standards) is finally over and done with. Bakary Koné and Nice came to an agreement this morning when the player decided to let them have part of the 630.000 Euros he was entitled to (7% of his tranfer, a clause ... http://marseille.theoffside.com/rumors/hello-baky.html If asked which one of our players had the biggest ego, I'm pretty sure most people would answer either "Djibril Cissé" or "Hatem Ben Arfa", or both. That might be true since the two have been. Or at least they're "acting" like they have bigger egos than most people. And ... http://marseille.theoffside.com/french-ligue-1/hatem-ben-arfa-and-djibril-cisse-already-fighting.html President Maurice Cohen gave Pape Diouf and his Marseille counterparts an ultimatum stating that if Marseille didn't give them what they were asking for on tuesday (that's yesterday not next week), Bakary Koné would remain a Nice player for at least one more season. Pape Diouf didn't seem all that impressed ... http://marseille.theoffside.com/french-ligue-1/baky-kone-is-very-close.html A group of incredibly commited supporters (led by the 24 year-old Mathieu Gomila aka "Kain34") decided to see if the marseillais fans across the world could virtually pay Chelsea to bring back Didier Drogba to the Vélodrome and maybe make sure the Marseille staff and the superstar aware of their ... http://marseille.theoffside.com/rumors/the-drogbathon-is-in-full-effect.html I promised myself I wouldn't make this a habit but a lot happened this week IRL (In Real Life for all you World of Warcraft fansd out there) so I didn't get enough time to post a thing on here. Arsenal finally gets Samir Nasri. First of all, the latest news comes ... http://marseille.theoffside.com/french-ligue-1/saturday-morning-mega-update.html His website is back up and says he just signed a four-year deal with the gunners. More later http://marseille.theoffside.com/mercato/samir-nasri-just-signed-with-arsenal.html I have been so focused ton the Ben Arfa case the last two weeks that I didn't even post about everything else that was going on at the Commanderie in the meantime. So I'm going to try and make up for it. Cédric Carasso finally left. While it was said for ... http://marseille.theoffside.com/team-news/friday-morning-catch-up-session.html This just in, Raymond Domenech will continue to be the French National Team manager. It seemed obvious when you saw the declarations these past few days, but still, WTF? Get ready to continue seeing a boring French team. When you see how European football has chenged during this Euro, the time ... http://marseille.theoffside.com/french-natinal-team/raymond-domenech-stays-on.html So, after a few days of doubt, Hatem Ben Arfa is offically a Marseille player. After having proved numerous times in a very short period how much he wanted to play for us newt season (going as far as to refuse Real Madrid offers while Lyon's Michel Facciolli was dangling ... http://marseille.theoffside.com/team-news/the-last-ben-arfile-hatem-presented-to-the-press.html