Overview

• OM said Adrien Rabiot and Jonathan Rowe were placed on the transfer list for unacceptable dressing-room conduct, applied under the club’s code of conduct, and both were kept out of training.
• Pablo Longoria told AFP the brawl exceeded acceptable limits and described the move as protecting the institution, adding the decision is not negotiable and effectively final.
• Rabiot’s lawyer, Romuald Palao, publicly contested the club’s rationale, calling the move incomprehensible and suggesting the episode is being used as a pretext to push the player out.
• The confrontation followed Friday’s 1-0 defeat at Rennes, with French outlets reporting exchanges of blows and staff intervention to halt the altercation.
• Transfer interest has resurfaced, including reported attention from Italy, with less than two weeks left in the window and the France staff monitoring potential effects on Rabiot’s availability.