USA Defender Oguchi Onyewu Set To Join Marseille
USA and The Standard Liege defender Oguchi Onyewu confirmed to join French Ligue 1 club Marseille. This is finally end of rumours that he will join English Premiership club Chelsea. Chelsea, Newcastle and Porto were the most recent suitors for the American center-back.
“A final agreement will be signed over the weekend with Marseille,” read a statement on the Standard Web site. The transfer deal will cost Marseille an estimated $4 million.
This is the return for Onyewu to go back to France. Onyewu having played three times for other French Ligue 1 club FC Metz and 24 games for La Louvière during a loan spell before moving to Belgium in 2004.
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