An exclusive school in Cairo. Some amazing numbers. A slow career. A tormented market coup. A German course. A couple of cumbersome comparisons. An enlightened scout. A story that is not the usual story. A bomber jacket that will be worth gold next summer
Like Godzilla, who the world only noticed when he decided to abandon the atolls in the Pacific and wander around. There is a striker in Europe who scores more than Haaland, who makes more assists than Cole Palmer and Vinicius and more shots per game than Kane and Musiala, who is more accurate in shooting than Retegui and stronger with his head than Jonathan David, who creates more scoring actions than Lewandowski and Gyokeres but skips the man like Yamal and also punishes you from a free kick. Omar Marmoush he is, numbers in hand, a monster: in 12 Bundesliga games, half of which were not completed, he scored 13 goals and provided 7 assists, placed 2.7 dribbles and 1.5 crosses per game and among the attackers only Ndoye of Bologna concedes in Europe more fouls than him. Then there is what the numbers don’t say but the rankings do: his Eintracht are second in the Bundesliga -4 behind Bayern, against whom they drew 3-3 with Marmoush contributing with two goals and an assist. To wake up Godzilla who was sleeping blissfully at the bottom of the sea it took the Americans’ nuclear tests, here it took a free transfer from Wolfsburg, the team that created him, to Eintracht. A zero parameter on paper, in reality he arrived at the end of a series of skirmishes in which Marmoush refused any renewal offer. In September Wolfsburg-Eintracht was played and at the Volkswagen Arena they first overwhelmed him with boos and then burst into laughter when he sent the first ball he tried to stop into orbit. But then he scored two goals: with the first he silenced his former fans by putting his hands to his ears, with the second he snubbed them by celebrating with the new ones away.