Marseille chief has no regrets over Greenwood deal

Club president Pablo Longoria says Marseille "looked astatine each nan information" erstwhile signing Mason Greenwood from Manchester United and that he has nary regrets complete nan deal.

Greenwood, 22, near Old Trafford successful a £26.6m woody pinch nan French nine successful August, signing until 2029.

Serious charges against Greenwood, including attempted rape and assault, were dropped successful February 2023.

But Marseille person faced disapproval from nan section major, who described nan move arsenic "not acceptable" erstwhile nan club's volition to motion nan forward, who spent past play connected indebtedness astatine Getafe successful Spain, went public.

When asked whether specified disapproval has led to regrets astir nan move, Longoria said astatine nan Thinking Football Summit: "The comments of nan politician reenforce what we did, [they did] not person each nan information.

"We took nan determination internally. OK, location was immoderate opposition, that was objective, but astatine nan aforesaid clip that gave america powerfulness to possibly not investigate, because I americium not a judge, but to usage each nan accusation to return nan champion decision, which I deliberation we did."

He added: "In our very first speech pinch nan coach [Roberto de Zerbi] we mentioned Mason's name.

"The coach knew Mson from nan past and it was a very speedy speech astatine nan commencement betwixt each of america because we judge successful nan talent of Mason.

"There were a batch of conversations betwixt each of america successful nan weeks starring up to his move. He is behaving fantastically pinch america and we are very happy to person him playing successful our team."

Greenwood has scored 5 goals successful 3 matches since joining nan Ligue 1 club.

However, England's caretaker head Lee Carsley said "he wasn't a subordinate we considered" erstwhile asked astir his imaginable engagement successful nan nationalist team.

Longoria said he could not explicate why Greenwood is not being considered by England, adding: "I don't want to reply that benignant of mobility retired of respect to everybody.

"I for illustration to talk astir what Mason is doing successful France and Marseille and we are very happy pinch nan benignant of performances that he is doing during nan first weeks arsenic well."

Greewood's goals person helped Marseille bask an undefeated commencement aft a extremist overhaul of nan squad for caller head De Zerbi, who joined aft leaving Brighton this summer.