Leonardo Balerdi

Why?

And Balerdi got off.

Okay, so Balerdi got injured.

Fine.

But why are you subbing off CBs for CBs? I understand the whole thing of we need to pressure to endure more.

Weird.

Perhaps

I had totally forgotten that we needed to sub off Balerdi.

Again, some big wages, I guess, in Bavar.

Balerdi have left, which I think will also be equally important.

But I think it's fair to say that maybe they would have wanted a little bit more in terms of the transfer fees that they've gotten in, although they managed to get a lot of wage bills out of the club.

Yeah, I think it shows Marseille's naivety in the transfer market.

However, audits also confirmed that Marseille has been spending well above its means, including high player wage bills and other operating costs.

The financial dire straits force the club to slash its wage bill as well as sell some of its best players over the summer window, such as Mason Greenwood, Facundo Medina, Leonardo Balerdi, and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang.

According to Marseille's CEO, the club's financial situation is dire enough that there is a very real risk that it could go bust.

That's an incredible statement to hear about one of Europe's most storied clubs and one that, until recently, was the only French team to win a European Cup.

Villar in goal.

Back line of Hermoso, Balerdi and Mancini.

Molina on the left.

Wesley on the right.

He changed his entire back three.

Um, and I, I, I think I caught why, but okay, let's, let's-

Balerdi was injured

... let's start with that.

I just think we're kind of entering this part of the season where teams are very, very much in a rush to cover Malin and put everything they can on Malin.

And then Gasperini is just like, so what are you going to do about Mancini and Balerdi going forward? And what are you going to do about Ramosa making runs into the box? We're kind of at that point of the season now.

Yeah.

It's... that kind of leads into my next question, uh, about like, what are you going to do against other players on the team when you are throwing everything in the kitchen sink at Bobby Mullen? Uh, the last three teams, Atalanta Fenerbahce and Torino who tried playing a low block against Roma and tried striking more on the counter or in Fenerbahce's, uh, strategy get a foul get a free kick get a foul get a free kick try and shoot uh rinse and repeat the has Roma been figured out or do they have too much quality for the other teams outside of the top six in the league

So I don't know much about what happened.

Um, however, um, Balerdi is, uh, catches my eye immediately.

He is 27 years old, right? He's new.

He's a-

He got injured

...

Balerdi and Lulli.

No, but I think he was back for this game.

Gasperini did make some changes.

He put on Molina, Balerdi, Moura, and then he took out Souley and Renshaw.

Renshaw actually was kind of a surprise starter.

I was very, very surprised that he got in from the start He hasn't played a minute so far this season.

On form.

They signed Kouliarakis as well, Molina from Atletico Madrid, Ghilardi, Balerdi on a loan, Darun, obviously he knows him well, scored morale, rotation.

But for me, one that nobody mentions, extending Paulo Dybala's contract, where it seemed like he was going to go away, potentially go to Saudi, potentially go to Boca Juniors.

He took a 60% pay cut.