OM, Nice, MHSC: what end of the transfer window for Delort? – Daily Mercato

Become captain of Montpellier this summer, Andy Delort animates this end of transfer window in France, in the same way as Kylian Mbappé. On Monday, the daily L’Equipe announced that the 29-year-old striker was very close to OGC Nice, where he was expected Tuesday or Wednesday to sign a three-year contract, plus an optional year. This same information specified, in the conditional, that Laurent Nicollin “would have accepted” a proposal from Nice of 10 million euros.

Montpellier did not accept Nice’s offer

But this Thursday morning, Delort is still not Nice and L’Equipe returns to his information, explaining that the Nice offer sent at the beginning of the week in Montpellier was in fact a paying loan with a purchase obligation of 6 , 5 million euros. An offer directly refused by the president of the MHSC, who would claim 10 million euros for his captain and from this summer.

Still according to L’Equipe, Nice does not wish to pay so much for Delort and is studying a plan B leading to Islam Slimani, as revealed yesterday by Le10Sport. The Algerian striker for OL, who has only one year of contract, would be very confident about a signing in Nice in the coming days according to L’Equipe. So will Andy Delort stay in Montpellier after all? Not necessarily. For the past few days, his name has been associated with OM.

OM are back in charge

Tuesday, Nice morning revealed that Pablo Longoria had returned to the charge in this case, he who is looking for a center forward to compete with Arkadiusz Milik, currently injured. In today’s edition, L’Equipe confirms the track, but ensures that OM has not engaged in any discussion with the MHSC and does not seem able to offer better than a loan with an option to buy, which should not be suitable for Montpellier.

But by the way, what does Andy Delort think? L’Equipe assured last Saturday that Andy Delort had warned his leaders the day before of his intention to leave the club. This morning, L’Equipe wrote that the player warned his leaders at the beginning of July. If the native of Sète seems clearly open to a transfer, several contradictory information has leaked on his preferences between OM and Nice.

“Delort has no preference”

Yesterday, FootMercato explained that Delort was seduced by the two Riviera projects, but gave his preference to OM. “He has no preference. OM excites him for some reasons, Nice for others”, responds to those around him Provence. The Provencal daily adds this morning that no club has made a concrete offer for Montpellier, which would like to recover at least 10 million euros according to this source. An amount deemed too high by Nice for the moment, but also by OM.

To summarize, everything still seems very open in this file where Nice still seems the candidate best placed to welcome Delort, unless Montpellier revises its requirements downwards by August 31 and accepts for example the idea of ‘a loan with an option to purchase. The player seems to him not wanting to close any doors and it is not to be excluded either that he finally remains at the MHSC, where he still has three years of contract.