OM will be able to recruit this summer during the transfer window after being informed by the Court of Arbitration for Sport that its appeal in the Pape Gueye case was indeed suspensive, the club announced to AFP, confirming information from L’Équipe. OM was notified in writing of this CAS decision on Monday afternoon. The case will be judged on the merits in October.
This is good news for the Marseille club, qualified for the Champions League, and its president Pablo Longoria. With its fragile finances, Marseille is indeed counting on the transfer window to balance its accounts and strengthen its workforce with inexpensive operations. In January, OM were banned from recruiting for a year and two transfer window periods by Fifa in the Pape Gueye case, their Senegalese midfielder recruited in 2020 amid litigation with the English club Watford.
The procedure had been opened in February 2021 by Watford, with which Gueye had agreed before withdrawing and joining the French club. The player had been suspended for four months from all official competitions, with OM as with his selection, but had immediately appealed and the CAS had suspended the sanction. He was then at the CAN with Senegal, who won the event. He also finished the season normally with OM.
