SASSUOLO playmaker Maxime LOPEZ: "Leaving Marseille was hard"
Interviewed during Prolongation podcast, French-Algerian midfielder Maxime Lopez (23), playing for Sassuolo since early October, stated: "Leaving Marseille turned out being a very hard thing to do. It's true, I wasn't getting much game time last season. But it was my home club, and I even thought I could have played for them allmy career long. Anyway, De Zerbi talked me into joining Sassuolo simply by calling me, and saying: 'Do you want to play football? Come join us'".
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