Olympique de Marseille is lucky for having enlisted Giannelli Imbula.

The midfielder, very promising, voted best player of Ligue 2 last season arrived on the Canebiere for 7.5 million Euros. The former Guingamp player was in the viewfinder of Chelsea, AS Monaco and PSG. But he finally decided to join the old port.

In the columns of France Football on Tuesday, Vincent Labrune, the president of the club returned to the Giannelli Imbula file.

“We buy talent with the prospect of high added value, he said. Imbula, for example, it was not a small matter. We paid 7 million excluding bonuses, while Chelsea, Monaco, and Paris were willing to pay almost the double. We could not have enlisted the player if he had not been willing to join us. “