After the opening defeat against Stade Rennes, Adrien Rabiot and Jonathan Rowe came to blows. And they really did.
Champions League participants Olympique Marseille put French international Adrien Rabiot and England U21 international Jonathan Rowe on the transfer list. The two have come to blows in the dressing room.
"What happened was extremely serious and violent, something I've never experienced before," said OM president Pablo Longoria in an interview with AFP. "It went far beyond what would be acceptable in a football club or any other organization." He himself was not in the dressing room, but there were allegedly no rules during the brawl.
The 22-year-old Rowe was loaned to Marseille by Norwich City last season and was signed permanently this summer for €14.5 million. The 53-time international Rabiot also started his second season with the runners-up, prompting Longoria to say: "As a club, we are the victims. You've never heard of such a fight in football."
