( Je sais pas trop d´où ils sortent tout ça, mais les qualités de président de Bouchet ça fait peur quand on a lu ça ) .
L´OM bemoan Heinze failure
Marseille have revealed they wanted to rival Manchester United for Gabriel Heinze, while insisting they did not make a mistake in accepting Chelsea´s offer for Didier Drogba.
The French giants have endured a frustrating season, with the turmoil reaching a crescendo last week when coach Jose Anigo and chairman Christophe Bouchet resigned.
Though he did not criticise Bouchet after his exit, the club´s major shareholder Robert Louis-Dreyfus admits he was disappointed by the transfer activity during the summer.
He admits he was looking for Marseille to entice Heinze to Stade Velodrome but, instead, the Argentine defender opted to leave Paris Saint Germain for The Red Devils.
Louis-Dreyfus was also irked by Daniel van Buyten´s move to Hamburg, with the paltry size of the transfer fee causing consternation.
Another transfer operation which irritated Louis-Dreyfus was the inability to sign a replacement for Drogba, even though the club´s benefactor admits Marseille could not refuse Chelsea´s offer for the Ivory Coast striker.
" I gave my words on some players we should have hired but we didn´t," commented Louis-Dreyfus in L´Equipe.
" For example, Jan Koller and Samuel Eto´o. There was Gabriel Heinze, too.
" The Drogba departure was not a mistake. When you are the chairman, you can´t refuse an offer of €37 million.
" The problem is when we sold Drogba, we had no plan to replace him. We could probably have got Koller or Eto´o, plus other players, and the team would have been stronger.
" You know, I am still traumatised by the Daniel van Buyten case. Two years ago we had offers of €15 million or €20 million and we sold him last summer for €3.5 million."