After a cabin brawl, the French first division team Olympique Marseille puts its two top performers Adrien Rabiot and Jonathan Rowe in front of the door.
The two were put on the transfer list “due to an unacceptable behavior in the changing room” after the lost season opener at Stade Rennes last Friday. The club had previously suspended the two stars indefinitely.
OM President Pablo Longoria spoke to the French news agency AFP of an “event of extreme severity and violence”, as the broadcaster France Info reported.
President: All limits crossed
“We had to make a decision after an incident had happened that exceeded the limits of what is acceptable in a football club, as in any other organization,” said Longoria. Although he was not in the changing room, he could say according to reports from those involved: “What happened there was extremely serious and extremely violent – something that I have never experienced before.”
What happened?
After Marseille had lost the game in Rennes on the number of superiority on the position, according to the cabin, several regular players, including the French international Adrien Rabiot, made striker Jonathan Rowe allegations that he had not given enough efforts in the game. As the broadcaster RMC Sport reported, Rowe did not want to let the allegations sit on him and it got out loud, many players screamed around.
After a verbal exchange of blows with bad insults between Rabiot and Rowe, the fists are said to have flown. According to the newspaper “La Provence”, the English U21 international is said to have first driven his teammate Rabiot. The two footballers have so far made no information about the incident.